Philosophy 

The intellectually inclined demand that religion be Philosophy. A thoughtful Hindu sent up this question: “As Christianity has no system of philosophy behind it, but has only a God of ethical conduct, how is it suited to the philosophically-minded Hindu race?” On the other hand, those who are will-minded demand that religion be Ethics. Those who are feeling-minded demand that it be Realization. It is true that the gospel is not a philosophy. It is a fact. The order is: first, fact; and then philosophy about that fact. Jesus presents the fact of himself as the gospel. About that Fact more philosophies have been written than about any other fact. They fill our libraries. But the gospel is not founded on the uncertain and often contradictory deductions of philosophy. Jesus is more than philosophy, he is more than ethics, and he is more than emotional realization. He is all three: I am the Way—Ethics; I am the Truth—Philosophy; I am the Life—Realization. He meets the needs of the man of action, the man of thought, and the man of feeling. He meets the whole man.

(E. Stanley Jones, The Christ of the Mount: A Working Philosophy of Life (Exploring the Sermon on the Mount), The E. Stanley Jones Foundation, 2017, 100; Excerpt from Chapter 6, What They Are to the Past)