I am optimistic by nature, and I believe that although the SRL Phenomenon faces us with a dizzying array of challenges — whether as lawyers, judges, policymakers, court staff or a member of the public — we can and shall find ways for the justice system can develop
a realistic contemporary approach to what we used to call access to justice.
In fact, with Proudfoot's two - term option his own book begs for a more sophisticated
approach — for while it denies realism in the name of a
contemporary hermeneutics of suspicion, it claims to offer a
realistic account of past scholarship on religious experience.