The Strictly Religious Problem
September 15, 2026 DOI: 10.4324/9781042014316-26 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
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| Key points | Argues that a revised analysis of the laws of thought, centered on the relation between actual and possible and between absolute and relative, supports the author's position of the Negative, which is claimed to resolve the conflict between two types of social order. Proposes that the religious problem is fundamentally the problem of human suffering and must be reinterpreted through worship, mystical experience, and the tension between individual and absolute and between historical and mystical Reality. |
Abstract
Recapitulation of our main position by a fresh analysis of the laws of thought—relation between “actual” and “possible” and “absolute” and “relative”—re-statement of the claim of the Negative—acceptance ofour view of Reality is bound to solve the difficulty between the two types of social order—the actual solution will appear in our treatise on ethics—the strictly religious problem —human faith in Divinity never failed—true significance of the attempt to deny Divinity—the theory of covenant between God and man—analysis—problem of God is the problem of human suffering—the religious issue strictly is the issue of worship and mystical experience—analysis—two implications: (i) individual and the absolute; (2) historical and mystical Reality—the conceptions so far understood have no meaning—the religious issue has to be re-interpreted.