Joshua Sprinkle’s Reviews > The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature > Status Update

For the love. This one is going to take me forever. I have resolved to try to be reading three books at a time: theology, narrative, and something interesting. This is my "something interesting."

"On this view religion and science, each verified in its own way from hour to hour and from life to life, would be co-eternal." (123)

On pages 49 - 50 this author, though non-religious, gave a lecture about religious experiences in 1902 and articulates something astonishingly compatible with the gospel of grace. He correctly intuits: "religious happiness is no mere feeling of escape. It cares no longer to escape ... Inwardly it knows [death] to be permanently overcome ... I cannot explain the matter ... to understand it you must [experience it]