THE NEOORTHODOX OBJECTION In our century a certain sophisticated objection has been registered against the whole idea of a verbal revelation. This objection contends that religious truth by its very nature will always be existential truth—that is, subjective “truth for me,” the human existent. It is said that because written or spoken language is always caught in the web of historical relativity, it is inadequate as a conveyor of religious truth to meet the soul’s subjective demand for religious