Reasoning

.....The mind alone is incapable of working itself out to conclusions that deserve the name of religious. All that one demands is that his intellect, because it is a part of the divine gift to man, shall not be degraded and insulted by being asked to accept things that are contrary to its normal processes. İn his belief his intellect must have its rights, and so long as this is denied him, he cannot dignify propositions with the name of beliefs. They may be sentiments, impulses, feelings, fancies, - What you please, only not beliefs. The word he likes best in this connection is reason, and by reason he means, not any definable process of reasoning, not dialects, but that just balancing of all considerations which results in 'reasonableness.'............

Ephraim Emerton, Prof of Church History in Harvard Univ, 1916