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

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

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Description

xvii, 338 pages; 22 cm

Summary

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

Harvard theological studies

Uniform Title

Harvard theological studies

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-328) and index.

Contents

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)

ISBN

0800670906
9780800670900

LCCN

93028255

OCLC

ocm28507291
28507291
SCSB-2011552

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library