In contrast to many Christian theologians, David Brown will open his lecture by praising the Enlightenment and the various benefits it has brought. Among these, it will suggested, is a more profound understanding of the kenotic Christ, of a much more radical entering into the human condition than was accepted during the patristic period. Such an evaluation, though, only becomes possible by going beyond the purely historical values of the Enlightenment into questions of imaginative truth. That insight is then applied more generally to how revelation might be understood in other religions, as much as within Christianity. The lecture then ends by considering how the view ‘from the inside’ might be encouraged in the modern university.