"If, as has happened in the contemporary world, all of the backgrounds of the images of our religious heritage have been transformed, as occurs when we find ourself in a world of machines rather than in a world of pastoral life, these changed images really cannot and do not communicate the feelings, the sentiments, and the meanings that they did to the people in the world in which these images were developed.
A system of mythological symbols only works if it operates in the field of a community who have essentially analogous experiences, or to put it another way, if they share the same realm of life experience." Chapter 1, Metaphor and Religious Mystery, ps. 8.

"There are two orders of religious perspective. One is ethical, pitting good against evil. In the biblically grounded Christian West, the accent is on ethics, on good against evil. We are thus bound by...