TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davidovich,Adina
TI  - Religion as a province of meaning: the Kantian foundations of modern theology 
T2  - Harvard theological studies
SN  - 0800670906 (alk. paper)
AV  - BL51 .D3624 1993
U1  - ARCH YNDC 210 D249R 
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Minneapolis, MN
PB  - Augsburg Fortress
KW  - Kant, Immanuel,
KW  - Otto, Rudolf,
KW  - Tillich, Paul,
KW  - Religion
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Philosophical theology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-328) and index
N2  - 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
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