Religion as Revelation and as Discovery
Religion The problem of whether religion is essentially a revelation of truth to man. The problem of whether religion a discovery of truth by man. This is in fact the intellectual formulation of a spiritual difficulty. Which each one of us experiences in the course of his or her quest for reality. Therefore, the most obvious and natural grouping of various religions and sects of the world is into those who consider religion as revelation. And those who consider it as the discovery of truth.This division is not simply theoretical. Since each of these definitions of religion has exercised a profoundly modifying influence. Upon the entire body of the beliefs and practices of the religions which were, whether consciously or unconsciously, dominated by it. Perhaps it was with the thought of some such division in his mind that Stanislas Schayer wrote in Buddhism as ‘’the most profound and most fundamental antithesis to Christianity’’. Nor is this division wholly new. Far Eastern Buddhists h...