This is how I distinguish dreaming and waking. When I am awake I can, in some degree, account for and study my dream. The dragon that pursued me last night can be fitted into my waking world. But while in the nightmare I could not have fitted in my waking experience. For the same reason I am certain that in passing from the scientific point of view to the theological, I have passed from dream to waking.
Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religions.
The scientific point of view cannot fit in any of these things, not even science itself. I see everything else. The Oxford Socratic Club, 1944. Quoted in Science and the B.B.C., Nineteenth Century , April, I943. December 12, 2000.