Does religion need metaphysics? If metaphysics is the first philosophy, the ultimate aim of which is the clarification of reality, it is only useful for a religion that recognizes its message as true. Christianity is such a religion because it does not satisfy itself with justification for some form of custom, culture but wants its message to be true, it wants to be a true religion. Hence, the discourse of Christian theology was held in a discussion with the metaphysical claim to truth. Aristotle defined metaphysics as a triple: as wisdom (cognition other than physical and mathematical), as a theory of what is free from material limitations (knowledge of the first principles) and as a philosophy of being as being (learning the deepest str...