ABSTRACT
Truth claims are in the first place questions of epistemology that can be addressed by means of logic and ascertaining facts: Truth can only be asserted if it has been obtained by means of proper reasoning and/or if there are facts to which a truth claim actually refers. The peculiarity of truth claims in religion stems from the fact that even if the rational operations are flawless there are hardly any facts that can be obtained or scrutinized in any way known in epistemology in general. Any subjectivist approach to conflicting religious truth claims reaches the paradox that the subjective conviction or experience is irrefutable, but that it is also incommunicable. A close analysis of any given religious belief, as long as it is the belief in a transcendent reality beyond human perspective, demonstrates that any religious belief does, indeed, aim at some transcendence that by definition is ultimately one and admits for plurality.
