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Bultmann also acknowledges, however, that "something right is contained in this anxious worship of God. Contained in it is the question of the one true God because it contains the knowledge that human beings are not their own lord. They are not freed from their anxiety about life by seeking to illumine the world, subjecting it to themselves and organizing it, but only by hearing the question in their anxiety, by accepting their knowledge of themselves, so that it leads them to acknowledge the one God who is Lord of heaven and earth" (5).

My question is this: granted that the accents may be different and that Bultmann is mainly concerned to stress the idolatrous, inauthentic character of religion, does he not say or imply pretty much the same sort of thing as Bergson does in speaking of the "two sources of morality and religion"? Or as Santayana does in distinguishing "natural" and "ultimate religion"? Or as Whitehead does in contrasting "social" and "rational religion"?

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