An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent

Abstract

theory . . . . has the merit that it does not lead us to play down the differences between the various forms of religious experience and thought. It does not generate any pressure to think that God the Father and Brahman, or Allah and the Dharmakaya, are phenomenologically, i.e. as experienced and described, identical; or that the human responses which they evoke, in spiritual practices, cultural forms, life styles, types of society, etc., are the same.