In Defense of Kant's Religion

Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason has been read for two centuries as a muddle: a great philosopher trying to squeeze Christianity into a moral box and failing. Firestone and Jacobs take the charge of incoherence head-on. Reading the text alongside the whole critical system, they show that Kant incorporates the essentials of Christian faith (radical evil, the prototype of perfect humanity, grace, and the ethical community) into a rational religious faith that holds together. The book was seven years in the making, carries a foreword by Nicholas Wolterstorff, and became the reference point for the 'affirmative' school of Kant interpretation.