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On the other hand, the broadly cognitive use determinative of religious utterances is to be clearly distinguished from any kind of merely intellectual use. For if faith's being objectively grounded accounts for the use of religious utterances being broadly cognitive, the objective ground of faith is of interest to faith only as its objective ground, as authorizing – -- giving and demanding – -- faith.
Indeed, one can say that religious talk about the ground of faith is always talk about the encompassing mystery of my own existence (das Woher meines Umgetriebenseins) as authorizing faith, even as religious talk about faith is always talk about the self-understanding authorized by that mystery.

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