ABSTRACT
It would be difficult to find a more sustained and systematic philosophical theology, especially in the ‘empirical’ tradition, than F. R. Tennant’s two volumes, Philosophical Theology. It was the author’s privilege to have Tennant as one of his guides as he worked out his dissertation, later published as The Empirical Argument for God in Late British Thought (Harvard, 1938; Kraus, 1970). The present essay was written in an almost desperate attempt to reduce the misunderstanding of Tennant’s reasoning about the way in which religious experience enters the argument for God. Too many persons in his own day, and since, simply put Tennant down as one ‘who does not believe in religious experience’.
