 So one epistemic value of Christian emotions is that of bringing the subject into perceptual acquaintance with truths as the religious tradition conceives them. Another potential epistemic value is that of providing evidence for those purported truths. The more concretely one treats the religious emotions — moving in the direction of James and away from Schleiermacher and Otto, as this article has done — the less evidential value the religious emotions have. The reason is that the perceptions are so shaped by the propositions that they might be called upon to provide evidence for, that the “evidence” is undercut by circularity.