Yong Huang has recently claimed that after the demise of
foundationalism, philosophy and theology can turn to Ludwig
Wittgenstein's non-foundationalist or coherentist religious
epistemology where, it is said, religious beliefs are
justified by a ‘reflective equilibrium’ with other
kinds of beliefs, with action, and
with different ‘forms of life’. I argue that there
are very good reasons to reject this
reading of Wittgenstein: not only unsupported, it is seriously
mistaken. Once the
epistemological terms of the debate are properly understood,
the evidence indicates
that Wittgenstein's view of religious beliefs is a form
of foundationalism, not coherentism.