Above all else one must be clear that in religion language is used in an entirely different way from that in which it is used in science. The language of religion is closer to that of poetry than that of science … one of its most important tasks is, with its language of images and parables, to keep us mindful of the wider context … We know that in religion we are dealing with a language of images and parables, that can never precisely convey what is meant … At the end of the day, the central Order, or the ‘One’ as we used to say, with which we commune in the language of religion, must prevail.
