ABSTRACT
In order to deal with the problems raised by the contemporary
intellectual outlook it is necessary for religious believers to
spend some time first of all considering the nature of truth. This
means looking at the different ways in which truth may be
expressed, and how religious and scientific truth are related to
one another. At the present time many people seem to think that
the only form of truth is literal or factual truth, but this is far from
the case. It is not literally true that ‘the Lord is my shepherd’,
but it is nevertheless true in a profound sense. Truth in general
is a quality of verbal statements. A statement is true when what
it presents to our minds is something real, that is, something
which really exists or is an aspect of reality. The presentation,
however, can be made in different ways, as will now be shown.
