ABSTRACT
Reformed epistemology endeavours to do justice to the foundational character of religious belief, and to the notion of God's inescapable reality. They resist the notion of a sovereign reason to which religious belief is answerable. For them, anyone who admits to such a conception of reason as a measure by which belief in God is to be assessed becomes 'an unwitting tool of the Enlightenment, of rational humanism'. For the believing philosopher who can see things clearly, the sovereignty of God, which he acknowledges as a believer, should be reflected in his philosophy in the working out of an epistemology which is itself sovereign over all alternatives. No doubt a believer does not have to give himself to philosophy, but if he did, then a proper use of reasoning, it is said, should lead to this result. Garry Gutting's concern is with the fact that this result has not been forthcoming in contemporary philosophy of religion.
