D. Z. Phillips is professor of philosophy at the University of Wales, Swansea, and the Danforth Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the Claremont Graduate School. He is the author of many important books on philosophy of religion and ethics, including The Concept of Prayer, Death and Immortality, From Fantasy to Faith, Interventions in Ethics, and Wittgenstein and Religion.

• Preface -- Can There Be A Religious Epistemology? -- Foundationalism and Religion: a Philosophical Scandal -- The Reformed Challenge to Foundationalism -- Preliminary Criticism of the Reformed Challenge -- Basic Propositions: Reformed Epistemology and Wittgenstein's On Certainty -- Epistemology and Justification by Faith -- Religion and Epistemology -- A Reformed Epistemology? -- Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives -- Philosophy, Description and Religion -- Manners Without Grammar -- The Hermeneutic Option -- Optional Descriptions? -- The Hidden Values of Hermeneutics -- The Sociologising of Values -- Religion in the Marketplace -- Grammar and Theology -- Grammar and the Nature of Doctrine -- Grammar and Doctrinal Disagreement -- Grammar Without Foundations -- Grammarians and Guardians -- Part Four Religion and Concept-Formation -- Epistemological Mysteries -- A Place for Mystery -- Morality, Grace and Concept-Formation -- Religious Concepts: Misunderstanding and Lack of Understanding