William Brede Kristensen

…of the earliest Dutch phenomenologists, W. Brede Kristensen (1867–1953), spoke of his work as follows:

…Gerardus van der Leeuw and W. Brede Kristensen have considered the sacred (holy) as central and have organized the material in their systematic works around the (transcendent) object and (human) subject of sacred (cultic) activity, together with a consideration of the forms and symbols of the sacred. Such historians of…