Religion as a province of meaning : the Kantian foundations of modern theology

Title
  1. Religion as a province of meaning : the Kantian foundations of modern theology / Adina Davidovich.
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  1. Minneapolis, MN : Augsburg Fortress, ©1993.
Author
  1. Davidovich, Adina, 1954-

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Description
  1. xvii, 338 pages; 22 cm
Summary
  1. The thought of Immanuel Kant has had incalculable - and, many would say, negative - impact on the modern estimation of religion, religious belief, and religious knowledge. Yet, Davidovich argues in the strikingly original interpretation, the chief lines and import of Kant's work on religion have been crippingly misunderstood. Davidovich radically refigures Kant scholarship by focusing decisively on his Third Critique, long thought his weakest, where she finds Kant confronting the results of his strong distinction between theoretical and practical reason. There he attempts a comprehensive theory of reflective judgment, in which contemplative thought of a moral designer of the universe is a principle that overcomes the bifurcation of scientific (rational) and moral (practical) activities. Moreover, this specifically religious consciousness, which harmonizes the lawfulness of nature with the purposiveness of freedom, is further developed, Davidovich maintains, by Rudolf Otto's and Paul Tillich's influential theories of religion. Today it can safeguard the status of religion and a normative science of religion. Davidovich's work is an outstanding contribution, breaking new ground in both Kantian scholarship and the theory of religion.
Series statement
  1. Harvard theological studies
Uniform title
  1. Harvard theological studies
Subject
  1. Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 > Religion
  2. Otto, Rudolf, 1869-1937
  3. Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965
  4. Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
  5. Otto, Rudolf, 1869-1937
  6. Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965
  7. Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
  8. Kant, Immanuel, (1724-1804) > Religion
  9. 1800-1999
  10. Religion > Philosophy > History > 19th century
  11. Religion > Philosophy > History > 20th century
  12. Philosophical theology
  13. 11.02 philosophy of religion
  14. Religion
  15. Religion > Philosophy
  16. Godsdienstfilosofie
  17. Philosophie de la religion
  18. Philosophie de la religion > 20e siècle
  19. Théologie philosophique
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Ch. 1 Introduction (starting p. 3) -- Ch. 2 Kant's Defense of Rational Faith (starting p. 7) -- Kant's Moral Proof of the Existence of God (starting p. 8) -- Examination (starting p. 9) -- Assessment of Kant's Phenomenology of Faith (starting p. 20) -- Conclusion (starting p. 25) -- Ch. 3 The Conflict between the Interests of Reason (starting p. 29) -- Kant's Statement of the Problem of Unity (starting p. 29) -- Clarification of the Problem (starting p. 30) -- Evaluation of the Problem (starting p. 35) -- Ch. 4 The Unity of Reason (starting p. 51) -- The Quest for Unity in the Introduction to the Critique of Judgment (starting p. 51) -- The Argument from Taste (starting p. 69) -- The Argument from the Unity of the Laws of Nature (starting p. 98) -- The Argument from Organic Nature (starting p. 104) -- The Argument from Humanity as an End (starting p. 109) -- The Argument from the Highest Good (starting p. 115) -- Ch. 5 Religion beyond the Limits of Practical Reason (starting p. 123) -- The Gradual Unfolding of Kant's Argument (starting p. 123) -- The Highest Good as a Reflective Principle (starting p. 128) -- The Kantian Foundation of Modern Religious Thought (starting p. 130) -- Contemplative Hope (starting p. 132) -- Concluding Remarks (starting p. 133) -- Ch. 6 The Noeticity of Religious Feeling: Rudolf Otto's Theory of the Religious A Priori (starting p. 149) -- In Search of a Method (starting p. 164) -- The A Priori Status of the Nonrational (starting p. 171) -- The Argument of The Idea of the Holy (starting p. 185) -- Conclusion (starting p. 215) -- Ch. 7 Tillich's Theory of the Theonomous Consciousness (starting p. 221) -- The Search for Unity in The System of the Sciences (starting p. 236) -- The Quest for Meaning in the Human Sciences (starting p. 246) -- Concluding Reflections (starting p. 284) -- Ch. 8 Religion and Contemplative Reflection (starting p. 305) -- Select Bibliography (starting p. 319) -- Index (starting p. 329)
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-328) and index.