Comprehensive Commentary on Kants Religion Within the Bounds of Bare Reason by Palmquist Stephen R.;

Author:Palmquist, Stephen R.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Published: 2015-12-21T00:00:00+00:00

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Interpreting Religious Ideas in a Church

Division One, Sections VI–VII (R 109–24)

1. Division One, Section VI: (A) Interpretations must be moral

Kant’s key argument in Section V can be paraphrased in the form: he found it necessary to deny the status of certain knowledge to the claims made by any historical faith in order to make room for the moral faith of rational religion (cf. CPR B xxx). Foreshadowing the modern ecumenical movement, Kant argued that many different forms of church faith can lead to one and the same pure rational faith, but only if everything about each church organization is open to revision, except its reliance on the four requirements of the true church, as outlined in Section IV; moreover, he observed that, historically, church faiths have been most likely to succeed in situations where they were grounded on a book that the people believed to have been revealed. With these twin conclusions in mind, Kant turns in Section VI to the pragmatic question of how such revealed texts should be interpreted in an empirical church. The arguments in this section are bound to be misunderstood if they are read as applying in an absolute way to any and all interpretations of religious Scriptures. As the title of Section VI clearly indicates:

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