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If religion may be defined generically as "a means to ultimate transformation" (Streng), the different specific religions can and should be considered analogically as so many different sacraments of the meaning of ultimate reality for us. 

Accordingly, all questions about the relative superiority or inferiority (or equality) of the different religions can and should be understood as questions about their relative validity or invalidity as such sacraments---keeping sacraments—keeping in mind that the validity of a sacrament is one thing, its effectiveness, something else, and that therefore the relative effectiveness or ineffectiveness of each of the religions depends upon its being appropriated by the existential self-understandings of individual persons in accordance with an appropriately generalized form of the rule, nullum sacramentum sine fide.

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