This claim stands in marked contrast to the approach of many philosophers of religion. It also contrasts with Barth’s approach to the notion of religion as a human endeavor and its relation to revelation. Barth viewed religion as a purely human projection and thus only capable of producing an idolatrous worship that is flawed in its ability to reveal God’s Word. Pannenberg instead sees religion as an expression of the openness to the world that is part of the natural conditions of human existence and that provides humanity with a translucent, if imprecise, notion of the divine. This
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