Kant’s View of the Church. An Intellectual Missionary,Yet an Impoverished Ecclesiology
Kant’s View of the Church. An Intellectual Missionary,Yet an Impoverished Ecclesiology
Author(s): Natalia MarandiucSubject(s): Comparative Studies of Religion
Published by: Romanian Assoc. for the History of Religions & Inst. for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy
Summary/Abstract: In spite of his reputation to be a herald individual autonomy, Kant suggests that the dominion of evil in human lives spreads through their social connections. The human person is constantly susceptible to the attacks of the evil principle, yet "if he searches for the causes and circumstances that draw him into this danger and keep him there, he can easily convince himself that they do not come his way from his own raw nature, as far as he exists in isolation, but rather from the human beings to whom he stands in relation or association…. 1. The Church within the Inner Circle; 2. The Church of the Outer Circle; 3. Assessing Kant’s Ecclesiology: An Intellectual Missionary, Yet an Impoverished ‘Church Plant’;
Journal: ARCHÆVS. Studies in the History of Religions
- Issue Year: X/2006
- Issue No: 03
- Page Range: 109-130
- Page Count: 22
- Language: English
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