Theology of the Passions - The Kern of All Religion

The story of rata and krishna invites us to recast passion as the kernel of all religion. Lying at the heart of every ideal passion is the means by which, as robert frost puts it, we may choose something like a star to stay our minds on. So alongside the imitation of christ, confucius, esther, the prophet or the bud, one might propose the imitation of radha. And if religion's heroes are to be re defined, then why not religion itself? That most controversial of ideas.