Chris L. Firestone and Nathan Jacobs integrate and interpret the work of leading Kant scholars to come to a new and deeper understanding of Kant's difficult book, Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. In this text, Kant's vocabulary and language are especially tortured and convoluted. Readers have often lost sight of the thinker's deep ties to Christianity and questioned the viability of the work as serious philosophy of religion. Firestone and Jacobs provide strong and cogent grounds for taking Kant's religion seriously and defend him against the charges of incoherence. In their reading, Christian essentials are incorporated into the confines of reason, and they argue that Kant establishes a rational religious faith in accord with religious conviction as it is elaborated in his mature philosophy. For readers at all levels, this book articulates a way to ground religion and theology in a fully fledged defense of Religion which is linked to the larger corpus of Kant's philosophical enterprise. "This book convincingly reinterprets Kant, and offers many genuinely fresh and thought provoking possibilities to explore. 26.2 April, 2010"―Daniel Plant, King's College "[This] is one of the best, if not the best, book that has yet been written in English on Kant's philosophy of religion. It is learned, clearly written, and immensely creative.... I recommend it unreservedly to anyone interested in Kant's philosophy of religion.2009, Volume 66"― INTNL JRNL PHILOSOPHY RELIGION "Invaluable in courses on Kant's philosophy of religion. There is a sizeable literature on the topic, but none that gives such a comprehensive overview of the scholarship in the course of developing its own interpretation."―Merold Westphal, Fordham University Invaluable in courses on Kant's philosophy of religion. There is a sizeable literature on the topic, but none that gives such a comprehensive overview of the scholarship in the course of developing its own interpretation. -- Merold Westphal ― Fordham University "Invaluable in courses on Kant's philosophy of religion. There is a sizeable literature on the topic, but none that gives such a comprehensive overview of the scholarship in the course of developing its own interpretation." --Merold Westphal, Fordham University Chris L. Firestone is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College in Deerfield, Ill. He is editor (with Stephen R. Palmquist) of Kant and the New Philosophy of Religion (IUP, 2006) and editor (with Nathan A. Jacobs) of The Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought (UNDP, 2012). Nathan A. Jacobs is Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, AR. He is contributor to Kant and the New Philosophy of Religion (IUP, 2006) and editor (with Chris L. Firestone) of The Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought (UNDP, 2012). Used Book in Good Condition