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[German Version] I. Philosophy – II. Philosophy of Religion – III. Fundamental Theology I. Philosophy Epistemology is a basic philosophical discipline, and is today closely associated with the philosophy of science and the philosophy of language. It deals with such concepts as “knowledge,” “opinion,” “truth,” “perception,” “justification,” “doubt,” and the like. It asks whether generally valid conditions for the justification of knowledge exist, and what these conditions are. Though the concept of epistemology was already current in 1819, it only …

[German Version] In continental usage, the term “fideism” has been used since the 19th century to refer to the anti-Enlightenment notion that faith rather than reason constitutes the real epistemological basis for theology and thus for the possibility of certainty. In this sense, “symbolofideism” derives from the Parisian Reformed theologians Auguste Sabatier and Eugène Ménégoz, who distinguished between, on the one hand, doctrines of faith in the form of religious concepts and dogmas as time-boun…

[German Version] I. Philosophy of Religion – II. Fundamental Theology – III. Ethics I. Philosophy of Religion Coherence is essentially a syntactic relation that exists between various propositions, but not between propositions and reality. This relation is typically defined as an absence of contradictions between various propositions. More appropriate, however, is another definition of coherence as the logically and conceptually consistent integrability of certain propositions into a more comprehensive system of propositions. In a coherence theory of truth, truth is u…