ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book refers to a scandal in contemporary philosophy of religion, namely, the assumption that an acceptable account of religious belief can only be given within the perspective of epistemological foundationalism. It shows that reformed epistemology made the basic propositions of religion seem isolated from the contexts in which they have their life. The book explains how hermeneutics, the sociology of knowledge, and even attempts at giving theology its proper status, may all create difficulties for giving perspicuous representations of religious belief. It provides conceptual reminders of the kind of life religious beliefs. The first thing to recognise is that in contemporary philosophy there is an enormous confidence about the analysis of religious belief, a confidence that the analysis shows such beliefs to be meaningless.
