Why does religion have so much trouble blooming in new ways?

I'm a professor of religious studies, yet I find it strange that religion is perhaps the realm of human experience that has the most trouble evolving and growing as theDivine Presence - the Ultimate Reality upon which religion is SUPPOSED to be based - reveals fresh truths about the spiritual journey. In the Christian tradition, it is understood that human beings are made in the image and likeness of the Creator. Doesn't it make sense that if we are meant to mirror and embody a creative force which takes enormous RISK in making a world that is continually bursting out of its buds and flowering in NEW ways, WE TOO should be reasonably expected to be supremely creative? And if the study and practice of theology is - in theory, at least - the dimension of life which is closest to the heart of a Creator-God, doesn't it follow that religion would then be expected to be the MOST creative of human endeavors rather than the LEAST? I certainly understand the wintertime impulse of religion to hunker down, preserve the truths that have already been revealed, and to cover itself over with a blanket of snow-like security. We all need seasons in our lives that are like that. But such security is eventually intended to thaw, melt, flow and nourish the breaking and flowering of NEW buds - new truths - in a burgeoning springtime of faith! Why is it, I wonder, that religion has such trouble following the natural course of the seasons of the Spirit?

Photo: Daffodils, Naropa University campus, Boulder, CO; March 21, 2014