 Bosanquet distinguished religious beliefs about particular persons or events from ‘religion’ (or, what was the same thing for him, ‘faith’ or ‘religious consciousness’). Still, he did not see himself as either an agnostic or atheist, or as reducing ‘religion’ to the ‘ethical’. While he states that there is much in Christianity that is no longer intelligible, he insists that religion—in the sense of religious consciousness—is needed for morality, and that an ethics cut off from religion is “without sap or life”. Similarly, Bosanquet’s opposition to seeing religion or religious belief as a faith in something supernatural does not mean that he denied the existence of the spiritual or held a reductionist view of reality. When it comes to human consciousness, he argued, the spiritual—the ‘inward’ transfiguration of the ‘outward’ aspects of life—is at least as much a part of what exists as the visible and material. This ‘infinite’ here is what Bosanquet called the ‘Absolute’.