The quest of the good life.

Recent advances in the physical sciences have greatly stimulated religious thinkers in their search for a science of religion; and almost everyday we come across a new definition of it. But as yet we do not seem to have found the definition that will persuade us to become more religious. Maybe this is too much to ask; but it may well be asked why it is that scientific "explanations" of religious experience so often persuade people to give up "being religious". (An essay towards a philosophy of religion. F E Brown)