The fact of religious diversity is vital for the philosopher of religion but also, to some extent,for the believer of a given faith. It takes place in such a dimension in which the views ofagiven believer or the meaning of the practice of a given religion presupposes the truthful-ness of specific claims concerning a given religion or the beliefs included in it. If now onthepart of the philosopher of religion or the followers of another religion, there is a direct orindirect challenge to such a key proposition, religious disagreement with epistemic dimen-sion is involved. 

Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion played an important role in the developmentof the concept of world religions. Writing at the time of a great wave of interest in non-European cultures in the first half of the 19th century, Hegel was among the first to realizethereality of religious pluralism. He saw that a philosophy of religion that wanted to favor Christianity must at a minimum have some story to tell about the other religions oftheworld.

Отталкиваясь от сегодняшних экуменических дискуссий о том, как следует обра-щаться с виной, которую церкви навлекли на себя в своем отношении к другимцерквам, статья рассматривает с евангелической точки зрения интерпретацию Мар-тином Лютером прощения грехов и вины.