In the first place it shows that this composition cannot be viewed as an accidental digression in the developement of Cusanus' thought, but rather expresses a method of thought which permeates his many and diverse writings and shows their seminal unity. Secondly, this study illustrates that Cusanus is not only concerned with a conception of philosophy which aims to explicate and clarify the meaning of the totality of truth and reality for human existence by way of this mode of thinking, but conversely also opens the possibility of interpreting everything which has meaning for man in the light of encompassing but never exhausitively comprehendable truth. Religion as it is understood by Cusanus, enables man to learn to understand the encompassing correlation of truth and reality as an environment in which he can develop the different capacities of his own humanity, amongst which the capacity to philosophy.
Religion is thereby the origin and limit of all rationality.
In the fourth place this study shows in what way this conjectural approach towards the universe of human meaning in general and especially towards religious forms of truth can contribute towards the articulation of contempory philosophy of religion, by means of a hypothesis, which not only concerns itself with the question of the essence and truth of religion and religions, but which also discovers in the reflection on and through the actuality of living religion the fundamental philosophical question of truth as such. In the perspective of conjectural thought queries concerning the truth of religion precede all other constituent queries and accompany them. These different ways of thought show that conjectural thinking can be considered as a spur to a metaphysics of human ways of life. This process precedes philosophy and can therefore never be captured in thought. To the extent that the function of conjectural metaphysics is to bring this happening into focus, it appears as a method by which all possible human articulations are seen in the light of the desire of truth, enabling these articulations to be interpreted at greater depth.