Kant and the Meaning of Religion by Godlove Terry

Author:Godlove, Terry [Godlove, Terry F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857734891
Publisher: I.B.Tauris

IV. The Christian Faith

A long line of commentators has noted Kantian elements in Schleiermacher’s new definition of piety in The Christian Faith. I will not rehearse them here. The question is whether our emphasis on Kant’s non-conceptualism brings out anything new in these familiar lines:

The common element in all howsoever diverse expressions of piety, by which these are conjointly distinguished from all of other feelings, or, in other words, the self-identical essence of piety, is this: the consciousness of being absolutely dependent, or, which is the same thing, of being in relation to God (CF, §4 [32]).39

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