ABSTRACT
The foundational propositions of reformed epistemology seem isolated. Though the believer trusts that they are true, they remain always open to the possibility of error. In Wittgenstein, the emphasis is on the way basic propositions underlie our ways of thinking without themselves being subject to doubt and speculation. The Reformed epistemologist's apologetics are negative rather than positive. Religion, it is argued, teaches us that a radical change is going to take place at the end of our lives; that at the end of time we enter into a reality very different from the one we have known. All through our lives we have looked through a glass darkly, but, then, face to face. For all we know, we have lived our whole lives in a distorted medium. The fact that the distinction between grammar, theories and beliefs is not a stable one may tempt us back to some form of foundationalism or to embrace an alternative akin to Reformed epistemology.
