ABSTRACT
Religion may either be made dependent on the success of demonstrations of the existence of God, or the existence of God may be shown to be revealed and guaranteed by religion. If the efforts of modem philosophy of religion to understand and appreciate religion are themselves to be justly appreciated, few things must be borne in mind. The consideration of religion organised in churches is bound to draw the student into problems which cease, in any specific sense, to be religious. The problem of religion, in short, is a problem of confidence and trust in the universe - not the kind of confidence in which a man, hoping God is on the job, takes life easily himself, but the kind which is a source of power, and makes him an effective force for good. The essence of religion is the claim that the world has this value and is, in that sense, divine.
