The Idea of the Holy: Ch 1 The Rational and the Non-Rational

So far from keeping the non-rational element in religion alive in the heart of the religious experience, orthodox Christianity manifestly failed to recognize its value, and by this failure gave to the idea of God a one-sidedly intellectualistic and rationalistic interpretation.

Religion is not exclusively contained and exhaustively comprised in any series of rational assertions and it is well worth while to attempt to bring the relation of the different 'moments' of religion to one another clearly before the mind, so that its nature may become manifest.


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