Religious words used for manipulation of society. Man can have from himself. If the early church had embraced an existentialist theology, it would have been absorbed into the Roman pantheon. It is true that existentialist theology is foreign to biblical religion. But biblical religion was the product of a particular culture and, though useful for societies in the same cultural stream, it is no longer suitable for an age in which an entire range of world cultures requires a common religious denominator.
Religious existentialism provides that, without losing the universal instinct for the holy.
Study this statement carefully. Unless already familiar with them, take time to listen to the Beatles' records, as well as to discs put out by other groups at the time. Following Rousseau, the exaggeration of the delights and the pathos of nature and experience which marks Romanticism may be sampled in, for example, Wordsworth's poems, Casper David Friedrich's paintings, and Schubert's songs. Many of these works are no longer in print, but can be obtained in local libraries.