Christianity is a religion of revelation, meaning that Christians believe that God must speak to us in order for us to arrive at a correct understanding of his nature and will.

He asks, "Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion of revelation to us, and not a history of theirs?"

While Rubin could be perfectly warm and clubbable away from the table, a bridge columnist was once moved to write of him: "Rubin believed that he was a founder of one of the four religions of revelation.