Religion and Reality

Abstract

Religious experience, then, is structured by religious beliefs, and religious beliefs are implicit within religious experience. We next have to ask whether this complex of experience and belief, taking as it does different shapes within the different traditions, is to be regarded simply as a human creation or as our response to a transcendent reality—though a response whose particular forms always involve the creative activity of the human imagination.

Religion constitutes our varied human reponse to transcendent Reality.