Author: Bernard M.G. Reardon
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134908395X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
This book sets out to present Kant as a theological thinker. His critical philosophy was not only destructive of 'natural' theology, with its attempt to prove divine existence by logical argument, it also left no room for 'revelation' in the traditional sense. Yet Kant himself, who was brought up in Lutheran pietism, certainly believed in God, and could fairly be described as a religious man. But he held that religion can be based only on the moral consciousness, and in his last major work, Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone - discussed here in detail - he interpreted Christianity purely in terms of moral symbolism. It would be no exaggeration to claim that Kant's influence has been decisive for modern theology.
Kant as Philosophical Theologian
Religion and Rational Theology
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521799980
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
This volume collects all of Kant's writings on religion and rational theology.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521799980
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
This volume collects all of Kant's writings on religion and rational theology.
Kant and the Question of Theology
Author: Chris L. Firestone
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107116813
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Kant scholars and analytic philosophers use varied perspectives to address problems surrounding Kant's theories of God and religion.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107116813
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Kant scholars and analytic philosophers use varied perspectives to address problems surrounding Kant's theories of God and religion.
Lectures on Philosophical Theology
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801493799
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
"Lectures on Philosophical Theology is an indispensable addition to Kant's works in English. It has not been previously translated, and even though it is compiled from lecture notes, it provides information on Kant's views not previously available in English."--Philosophical Books
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801493799
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
"Lectures on Philosophical Theology is an indispensable addition to Kant's works in English. It has not been previously translated, and even though it is compiled from lecture notes, it provides information on Kant's views not previously available in English."--Philosophical Books
Kant and Theology
Author: Pamela Sue Anderson
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567603741
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Shedding new light on enlightenment and religion, this is an introduction to the influence of Kant's thoughts on theology and the response from theology.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567603741
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Shedding new light on enlightenment and religion, this is an introduction to the influence of Kant's thoughts on theology and the response from theology.
Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521599641
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is a key element of the system of philosophy which Kant introduced with his Critique of Pure Reason, and a work of major importance in the history of Western religious thought. It represents a great philosopher's attempt to spell out the form and content of a type of religion that would be grounded in moral reason and would meet the needs of ethical life. It includes sharply critical and boldly constructive discussions on topics not often treated by philosophers, including such traditional theological concepts as original sin and the salvation or 'justification' of a sinner, and the idea of the proper role of a church. This volume presents it and three short essays that illuminate it in new translations by Allen Wood and George di Giovanni, with an introduction by Robert Merrihew Adams that locates it in its historical and philosophical context.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521599641
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is a key element of the system of philosophy which Kant introduced with his Critique of Pure Reason, and a work of major importance in the history of Western religious thought. It represents a great philosopher's attempt to spell out the form and content of a type of religion that would be grounded in moral reason and would meet the needs of ethical life. It includes sharply critical and boldly constructive discussions on topics not often treated by philosophers, including such traditional theological concepts as original sin and the salvation or 'justification' of a sinner, and the idea of the proper role of a church. This volume presents it and three short essays that illuminate it in new translations by Allen Wood and George di Giovanni, with an introduction by Robert Merrihew Adams that locates it in its historical and philosophical context.
Kant and the Divine
Author: Christopher J. Insole
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019259494X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The book offers a definitive study of the development of Kant's conception of the highest good, from his earliest work, to his dying days. Insole argues that Kant believes in God, but that Kant is not a Christian, and that this opens up an important and neglected dimension of Western Philosophy. Kant is not a Christian, because he cannot accept Christianity's traditional claims about the relationship between divine action, grace, human freedom and happiness. Christian theologians who continue to affirm these traditional claims (and many do), therefore have grounds to be suspicious of Kant as an interpreter of Christian doctrine. As well as setting out a theological critique of Kant, Insole offers a new defence of the power, beauty, and internal coherence of Kant's non-Christian philosophical religiosity, 'within the limits of reason alone', which reason itself has some divine features. This neglected strand of philosophical religiosity deserves to be engaged with by both philosophers, and theologians. The Kant revealed in this book reminds us of a perennial task of philosophy, going back to Plato, where philosophy is construed as a way of life, oriented towards happiness, achieved through a properly expansive conception of reason and happiness. When we understand this philosophical religiosity, many standard 'problems' in the interpretation of Kant can be seen in a new light, and resolved. Kant witnesses to a strand of philosophy that leans into the category of the divine, at the edges of what we can say about reason, freedom, autonomy, and happiness.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019259494X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The book offers a definitive study of the development of Kant's conception of the highest good, from his earliest work, to his dying days. Insole argues that Kant believes in God, but that Kant is not a Christian, and that this opens up an important and neglected dimension of Western Philosophy. Kant is not a Christian, because he cannot accept Christianity's traditional claims about the relationship between divine action, grace, human freedom and happiness. Christian theologians who continue to affirm these traditional claims (and many do), therefore have grounds to be suspicious of Kant as an interpreter of Christian doctrine. As well as setting out a theological critique of Kant, Insole offers a new defence of the power, beauty, and internal coherence of Kant's non-Christian philosophical religiosity, 'within the limits of reason alone', which reason itself has some divine features. This neglected strand of philosophical religiosity deserves to be engaged with by both philosophers, and theologians. The Kant revealed in this book reminds us of a perennial task of philosophy, going back to Plato, where philosophy is construed as a way of life, oriented towards happiness, achieved through a properly expansive conception of reason and happiness. When we understand this philosophical religiosity, many standard 'problems' in the interpretation of Kant can be seen in a new light, and resolved. Kant witnesses to a strand of philosophy that leans into the category of the divine, at the edges of what we can say about reason, freedom, autonomy, and happiness.
Kant: Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107149592
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
A revised and updated edition of this pivotal work, which contemplates the kind of religion that Kant's own philosophy would support.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107149592
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
A revised and updated edition of this pivotal work, which contemplates the kind of religion that Kant's own philosophy would support.
Kant's Rational Theology
Author: Allen W. Wood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This book explores Kant's views on the concept of God and on the attempt to demonstrate God's existence as a means of understanding Kant's work as a whole and of achieving a proper appreciation of the contents of Kant's moral faith.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This book explores Kant's views on the concept of God and on the attempt to demonstrate God's existence as a means of understanding Kant's work as a whole and of achieving a proper appreciation of the contents of Kant's moral faith.
Kant and Theology at the Boundaries of Reason
Author: Chris L. Firestone
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317109686
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book examines the transcendental dimension of Kant's philosophy as a positive resource for theology. Firestone shows that Kant's philosophy establishes three distinct grounds for transcendental theology and then evaluates the form and content of theology that emerges when Christian theologians adopt these grounds. To understand Kant's philosophy as a completed process, Firestone argues, theologians must go beyond the strictures of Kant's critical philosophy proper and consider in its fullness the transcendental significance of what Kant calls 'rational religious faith'. This movement takes us into the promising but highly treacherous waters of Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason to understand theology at the transcendental bounds of reason.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317109686
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book examines the transcendental dimension of Kant's philosophy as a positive resource for theology. Firestone shows that Kant's philosophy establishes three distinct grounds for transcendental theology and then evaluates the form and content of theology that emerges when Christian theologians adopt these grounds. To understand Kant's philosophy as a completed process, Firestone argues, theologians must go beyond the strictures of Kant's critical philosophy proper and consider in its fullness the transcendental significance of what Kant calls 'rational religious faith'. This movement takes us into the promising but highly treacherous waters of Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason to understand theology at the transcendental bounds of reason.