Instead, Pannenberg views all religious traditions as giving communal expression to the religious experience of its adherents. While this experience can be studied from a variety of perspectives (e.g. phenomenological, sociological, and psychological), the specifically theological study of religion investigates the religious intention of these communities and attempts to understand the self-revelation of the divine in each of these religions.[48] Since the proper object of theology is God and all things sub ratione Dei, the success of a religious tradition is to be judged by its capacity to
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