Writing in the Wall Street Journal, essayist Joseph Epstein extols William James's The Variety of Religious Experience:

"What makes 'Varieties of Religious Experience' the great book it is, after all, is not its consideration of the logic of religion but the role religion has played in that mysterious entity known as human nature, which is itself of course outside the realm of reason."

Matt Emerson is the author of Why Faith? A Journey of Discovery (Paulist Press, 2016). His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including America and The Wall Street Journal.