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Jesus and the Struggle for the Real

The religious quest of our time has been called a "struggle for the real."' It is not that traditional systems of religious symbol have been formally invalidated or "disproved," but, rather, they have ceased to represent or inform the reality of everyday life as we experience it. The reality to which religious symbols point is not given today as an unquestioned, immediate, taken-for-granted, one-possibility perspective within which men can simply rest with assurance. Religious convictions come to be held, if at all, for reasons of which we are self-consciously aware. They come to be maintained in carefully defined ways which specify the kind of reality to which we think they point. We believe, knowing that it is in order to impart coherence and direction to our lives. We do not believe just as we breathe.