Rather, his project is religious phenomenology, the description of religious experience; or, alternatively worded, religious anthropology, the study of what a religious personality is like. Rabbi Soloveitchik wants to discern whether, existentially, a person of faith can live and function in a modern technological society enamored of quantitative methods and bent on material triumphs. The challenge the Rav confronts is not secular knowledge but secular man and secular society.2 The person of faith feels lonely, estranged, alienated. What is the precise source of this loneliness, and can the
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