 We can see two tendencies in Otto’s thought: his striving to make the numinous feeling sui generis, to protect it from encroachments of other spheres such as ethics and science; and his striving to make it do justice to the variety of the emotions that actually occur in religious life. These tendencies are hard to combine in a consistent account, especially if the supposed encroachments of the “other spheres” are actually native to the religion whose emotions are being examined. For example, Christianity is a religion whose theology is an ethics, an ethics of justice, truthfulness, compassion for the poor and suffering, and of mutual love in the community. In the ideal case, the emotions that are generated from thinking, caring, and acting by the standards of Christian theology are emotions that express ethical character.