Kant and Theology at the Boundaries of Reason

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. Chapter 1 Can Theology Go Through Kant?; Chapter 2 Knowledge and Cognition in Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy; Chapter 3 Faith and Cognition in Kant’s Philosophy of Religion; Chapter 4 Kant’s Moral Grounds for Theology; Chapter 5 Kant’s Poetic Grounds for Theology; Chapter 6 Kant’s Ontological Grounds for Theology; Chapter 7 Rational Religious Faith and Kantian Theology; Chapter 8 Concluding Comments;