The word "enlightenment" is not generally used in Christian contexts for religious understanding or insight.
From such encounters the Vatican will eventually get a new religious understanding.
Throughout his live he promoted religious understanding and freedom in Riga.
The religious life preceded clear religious understanding and extends far beyond its range.
Some churches give Scripture the dominant position over all other sources of religious understanding.
"I felt that religious understanding was the most fundamental need that humans had," he said.
But the circumstances threatened to overshadow the work of an American family devoted to religious understanding.
Natural theology had earlier expected that scientific findings based on empirical evidence would help religious understanding.
Seeking "some kind of religious understanding," he entered a seminary.
However, Universalism also did not quell his desire for religious understanding.