ABSTRACT
This chapter considers questions nibbling at the edges of our four square treatment of the great religious founders. By dealing with these questions, people hope to suggest the wider horizon within which it is most profitable to locate the spiritualities of the men have studied. The chapter concludes that the great founders were highly sophisticated, precisely because they had been overwhelmed by ultimate reality. No simpleminded expression of what ultimate reality is like or requires of human beings could do justice to the Way of the Buddha or Confucius, to the Father of Jesus or the Allah of Muhammad. The Way is the creator of significance, and the significance that human beings find in the Way is always less than the Way itself. The Father is the source of the Torah, not the captive. Allah is the source of the Qur'an, and no human exegesis of the Qur'an can ever capture his richness.
