Edited with Nathan A. Jacobs
The Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought
Hobbes, Leibniz, Locke, Kant, Schelling, Hegel: the modern philosophers who never left God behind.
The standard story says modern philosophy is the story of secularization. This volume tells a different one. Fifteen contributors, among them Nicholas Wolterstorff, John Cottingham, Philip Clayton, and Richard Muller, show that the major European philosophers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century were theologically serious thinkers trying to reconcile faith and reason in an age of science, not to remove God from philosophy. Firestone's chapter, 'The Illegitimate Son: Kant and Theological Non-Realism,' takes on the reading of Kant that made him the father of theology without God. Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title.
Praise
A timely and useful collection that has the potential to crystallize recent developments recognizing the centrality of our relation to God in the work of major modern philosophers.
— John E. Hare, Yale Divinity School
Makes an original contribution to our understanding of modernity, secularization, and God's underappreciated place in European philosophical thought.
— Robert Louden, University of Southern Maine
Succeeds strikingly in amending excessively secular accounts of modern thought.
— Journal of Church and State
Honors
- Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013
Contents
- Introduction (Firestone and Jacobs)
- Chris L. Firestone, 'The Illegitimate Son: Kant and Theological Non-Realism'
- Essays by Nicholas Adams, Hubert Bost, Philip Clayton, John Cottingham, Yolanda Estes, Lee Hardy, Peter C. Hodgson, Nathan A. Jacobs, Jacqueline Marina, A. P. Martinich, Richard A. Muller, Myron B. Penner, Stephen D. Snobelen, and Nicholas Wolterstorff
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Cite this book
Firestone, Chris L., and Nathan A. Jacobs, eds. The Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought. University of Notre Dame Press, 2012.
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