First, then, we must consider Religion as such. Here four mutually dependent fundamental questions arise: (1) Does Religion exist for the sake of God, or for Man? (2) Must it operate directly or mediately? (3) Can it remain partial in its operations or has it to embrace the whole of our personal being and existence? and, (4) Can it bear a normal, or must it reveal an abnormal, i.e., a soteriological character?
