This is the climate in which Nichiren Buddhism is taking root in the west. The practice of Nichiren Buddhism appeals to rationality because it holds that events, feelings and physical realities are ordered and governed by the law of cause and effect. By the same token, Nichiren Buddhism presents us with wonderment at the fact that this law of cause and effect operates across the mind-boggling vast reaches of beginingless time, space and multiple incarnations, and with the understanding that all living beings are interconnected. In other words, Nichiren Buddhism posits a totally rational universe, and also maintains that the faculties of human reason cannot grasp the entirety and complexity of the universe. Not through cogitation and reasoning, but through faith.
Faith is the transcending element.
Faith Faith is a whole other essay.