The biblical message remains unacceptable unless seen in the context of essential attitudes and sensibilities. The tendency to rely completely, in our religious thinking, upon the so-called contemporary experience must be questioned. Contemporary experience is stunted experience, it is largely devoid of the higher qualities of experience.

A.J.Heschel, The God of Israel and Christian Renewal, in Moral Grandeur & Spiritual Audacity, FSG, p. 276