ABSTRACT
There are special, difficulties, however, relating to the religious examples. The presence of religious practices in our midst may tempt us to revert to some kind of foundationalism or to something akin to Reformed epistemology with respect to it. Within religion itself a central place is given to religious mystery. God is a mystery which human understanding cannot exhaust. A certain understanding of the religious distinction between the unreality of this world and the reality of God's world has become a general epistemological view. There is nothing uncertain about how we are to come to God; we must come as little children. There is a deep misunderstanding, therefore, if such remarks are taken as signs of the relative uncertainty of religious views of the world when compared, let us say, with physics or ordinary perception. Yet, curiously enough, this is what has happened from both some Calvinist and some Catholic perspectives in relation to the epistemic status of religious practices.
