British Anglican missionary, educator, writer. Stresses the existential and psychological aspects of religion. Opposes biblical literalism, propositional revelation, natural theology, and all forms of religious humanism . Reasserts and reinterprets the role of sin in religious understanding and in the problems of the human situation. Restates the philosophy of religion of St. Thomas Aquinas .
Religious knowledge is a product of reason completed by revelation.
An independently real world is known by independently real minds. Stresses natural theology and theism. Teaches that God possesses all the qualities of perfection. The Bible as interpreted by the Church is authoritative. The objective world known is neutral, that is, it consists of mental and material entities and objective relations as well.