This book is based on notes taken at the lectures of the late Professor Yitzhak Julius Guttman (1880-1950) on topics relating to the philosophy of religion. Guttman, in these lectures, made use of the comparative material at his disposal. Nevertheless, there is a specific direction to the mode of comparison he adopts; he not only seeks to promote the idea that there is a classification within the field of religious phenomena with regard to distinguishing between the higher and the lower phenomena, but he also wishes to show that, in the area of higher religiosity, monotheism represents the supreme stage of religious development.
