Abstract

Half a century after his first groundbreaking study on Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, Allen Wood has once again produced a singularly important work on the topic. This is a passionate book. Wood strives to look with Kant at the human condition and at what reason demands of us as we confront ultimate questions and think about the place of religion in answering them. The result is a profound and honest engagement with Kant's work, certainly one of the most important book-length treatments existing on the subject.Contrary to those who view Kant as a secularist inimical to revealed religion, Wood presents Kant's project as "an authentically religious one, even an authentically Christian one"...