The purpose of this paper is to present an initial idea for a hermeneutics of religion enshrined in systemic hermeneutics. It begins from a reflection on both traditional philosophy of religion and its current situation in Taiwan. Firstly, from a historical overview of the Western philosophy of religion this study reveals the historical development and transformation of this philosophy. It developed from a metaphysical paradigm, through a phenomenological paradigm to a hermeneutical turn. The paper shows that the microcosm of this grand narrative is found in Taiwanese Christianity. Thus it presents the basic concept of systemic hermeneutics, and then takes this as the foundation for the conceptualization of a systemic hermeneutics of religion and its ground characteristics. This is founded in the context of a hermeneutics of culture as the background for a hermeneutics of religion, and finally allows for the potential development from a systemic hermeneutics of religion to a hermeneutics of Christian theology and an intercultural philosophy of religion.