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Therefore, it must be comparative theology which performs this effort because it is a theology which is able to perceive different religious traditions contiguously and encounter questions and problems from different points of view without ceasing to look for specific confessional ways to the truth.
11 Since the meaning of basic religious beliefs within particular traditions are heterogenic and can lead to advantageous discussions only if related to single cases and language games, comparative theology focuses on a cautious observation of select details within particular solitary cases.
Therefore, it is important that, as a first step in comparative theology, problems are drafted according to the different viewpoints of religious and non-religious traditions and in so doing the critique of religion appears quite meaningful.
Especially as the regulative function of religious speech is understandable only within the context of language games, comparative theology cannot give decision guidance on the meta-level of a philosophy of religion but has to make different insider perspectives become transparent to each other and comparable towards an externally reasoned criteriology.
In addition, comparative theology poses the truth question not as a question, however, for religions in their entirety, but rather with reference to a particular religious conviction within a concrete context of language games.
(4-4) Another serious critique of comparative theology on a hermeneutic level leads to the idea that "it is an inperformable idea to take the perspective of another religion in order to understand one‟s own tradition better.