One way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to see it not in the first instance as a challenge to
the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or other traditions, but as the gradual erosion, in an ever more complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with nature, organic interrelatedness with the human community, and sensitive attention to the processes of lived experience where the realities designated by religious symbols and assertions are actually to be found, if they are found at all.
To be sure, if we concentrate on constitutional discourse, examining it for
cogency or
intellectual coherence, there is cause for frustration.