ABSTRACT
The approach to the religions of the world used in this book is phenomenological; that is, it sees them as instances of ‘what is’, in past and present, as expressions of the human attempt to relate to God or the transcendent. Such an approach is so broad that there is room for a number of variants on the general theme. Anyone interested in questions of method will observe them, and will note how various parts of the subject might have been dealt with in other ways. From that point of view, there is undoubtedly an arbitrary element in the arrangement of the topics.
