Kant and the Question of Theology

Kant and the Question of Theology
Author: Chris L. Firestone
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2017-09-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107116813

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Kant scholars and analytic philosophers use varied perspectives to address problems surrounding Kant's theories of God and religion.

The Intolerable God

The Intolerable God
Author: Christopher J. Insole
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467445274

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The thought of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is often regarded as having caused a crisis for theology and religion because it sets the limits of knowledge to what can be derived from experience. In The Intolerable God Christopher Insole challenges that assumption and argues that Kant believed in God but struggled intensely with theological questions. Drawing on a new wave of Kant research and texts from all periods of Kant’s thought — including some texts not previously translated — Insole recounts the drama of Kant’s intellectual and theological journey. He focuses on Kant’s lifelong concern with God, freedom, and happiness, relating these topics to Kant’s theory of knowledge and his shifting views about what metaphysics can achieve. Though Kant was, in the end, unable to accept central claims of the Christian faith, Insole here shows that he earnestly wrestled with issues that are still deeply unsettling for believers and doubters alike.

Kant and the Question of Theology

Kant and the Question of Theology
Author: CHRIS L. FIRESTONE;NATHAN A. JACOBS;JAMES H. JOINE.
Publisher:
Total Pages:
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Genre: Philosophical theology
ISBN: 9781108524063

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God is a problematic idea in Kant's terms, but many scholars continue to be interested in Kantian theories of religion and the issues that they raise. In these new essays, scholars both within and outside Kant studies analyse Kant's writings and his claims about natural, philosophical, and revealed theology. Topics debated include arguments for the existence of God, natural theology, redemption, divine action, miracles, revelation, and life after death. The volume includes careful examination of key Kantian texts alongside discussion of their themes from both constructive and analytic perspectives. These contributions broaden the scope of the scholarship on Kant, exploring the value of doing theology in consonance or conversation with Kant. It builds bridges across divides that often separate the analytic from the continental and the philosophical from the theological. The resulting volume clarifies the significance and relevance of Kant's theology for current debates about the philosophy of God and religion.

Kant as Philosophical Theologian

Kant as Philosophical Theologian
Author: Bernard M.G. Reardon
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 219
Release: 1988-07-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 134908395X

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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 and the Divine

Kant and the Divine
Author: Christopher J. Insole
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2020-03-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 019259494X

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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.

Presupposing God

Presupposing God
Author: Robert A. Hand
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2022-07-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666733741

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It is widely recognized that Immanuel Kant was one of Karl Barth’s most important intellectual influences, but how and to what extent this is the case remains an open question. In Presupposing God, Robert Hand demonstrates a deep consistency between Kant’s and Barth’s theological epistemologies, with this issue in mind. After arguing for a number of positive emphases in Kant’s critical philosophy and religious epistemology in conversation with modern Kant scholarship, Presupposing God demonstrates how these emphases were obscured in Kant’s reception in the decades between Kant and Barth, and then explores the intellectual conditions under which Barth first encountered Kant. The argument proceeds to show how Barth wrestled with these varying interpretations and continued to utilize Kant with increased sophistication as his thought developed across the Romans commentaries, Anselm, and the Church Dogmatics. Presupposing God suggests that Kant can be an asset to theology, rather than the liability he is often taken to be, and that Barth is one of the better available examples of this in practice.

Kant and Theology at the Boundaries of Reason

Kant and Theology at the Boundaries of Reason
Author: Chris L. Firestone
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2016-04-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1317109686

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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.

Religion and Rational Theology

Religion and Rational Theology
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2001-03-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521799980

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This volume collects all of Kant's writings on religion and rational theology.

Kant and the Creation of Freedom

Kant and the Creation of Freedom
Author: Christopher J. Insole
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2013-05-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199677603

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Kant is a key thinker in the emergence of our contemporary sense of what 'human freedom' is, and why it is important. This book shows that important features of Kant's philosophy were forged out of difficulties he had in reconciling his belief in God as creator with the concept of human freedom.