Comprehensive Commentary on Kant's Religion Within the Bounds of Bare Reason.

Intro -- Title page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Why a commentary on Kant's Religion, now? -- Note on the revised translation and its presentation -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Kant's Writings, Listed by Acronyms -- 2. Editions of Kant's Religion, Listed by Acronyms -- 3. Bible Translations -- 4. Twelve Key Books Interpreting Religion -- Introduction: The Hermeneutic Background to Kant's Religion -- 1. Kant's private beliefs and the writing of Religion -- 2. The 1793 Preface: (A) Religion as the final purpose of morality -- 3. The 1793 Preface: (B) Unifying philosophical and biblical theology -- 4. The 1794 Preface: Two experiments and Kant's responses to critics -- Part I: Human Nature's Transcendental Problem -- 1 The Original Goodness of Human Nature -- 1. Untitled introduction: Is humanity good or evil by nature? -- 2. Comment: (A) Why moral neutrality is impossible -- 3. Comment: (B) Could humans be partly good and partly evil? -- 4. Section I: Human nature's original predisposition is good -- 2 The Propensity to Evil in Human Nature -- 1. Section II: (A) Three sources of moral evil -- 2. Section II: (B) Defining evil as a perversion of moral reasoning -- 3. Section III: (A) Empirical evil and its origin on the boundary -- 4. Section III: (B) The need for (and form of) an a priori proof -- 3 Evil's Rational Origin and the Hope for Recovery -- 1. Section IV: (A) Transcendental versus empirical origins -- 2. Section IV: (B) Assessing the Bible's account of evil's origin -- 3. Section V: (A) Divine aid and conversion's possibility -- 4. Section V: (B) God's role in transforming moral character -- Appendix I: Experiencing the Effects of Grace against Evil -- Part II: The Individual's Logical Struggle -- 4 The Personified Idea of the Good Principle -- 1. Untitled introduction: How to distinguish evil from good.

2. Section One, A: The archetype of perfection as a divine gift -- 3. Section One, B: (A) Becoming exemplary via practical faith -- 4. Section One, B: (B) An archetypal person's twofold nature -- 5 Legitimizing Hope in Divine Grace -- 1. First difficulty: How can imperfect beings become holy? -- 2. Second difficulty: Can we be certain of our eternal destiny? -- 3. Third difficulty: How can God punish pre-conversion evil? -- 4. Overview: Grace as the basis for a legal claim to being good -- 6 Biblical Symbols of the Struggle with Evil -- 1. The Genesis narrative on evil's legal claim to dominion -- 2. Advent of a unique person, free from the propensity to evil -- 3. In what sense does the crucifixion defeat the power of evil? -- 4. The narrative's rational meaning -- Appendix II: Experiencing Miracles as Self-Negating -- Part III: The Community's Empirical Victory -- 7 The Founding of a True ChurchIntroduction and Division One, Sections I-V (R 93-109) -- 1. Untitled introduction: Hope for victory in struggling with evil -- 2. Division One, Sections I-III: Founding the ethical community -- 3. Division One, Sections IV-V: Establishing a true church -- 4. Untitled comments: Different faiths can express one religion -- 8 Interpreting Religious Ideas in a Church -- 1. Division One, Section VI: (A) Interpretations must be moral -- 2. Division One, Section VI: (B) Nonmoral Interpretive Methods -- 3. Division One, Section VII: (A) Interpreting faith as a vehicle -- 4. Division One, Section VII: (B) The coming of God's kingdom -- 9 Gradual Victory of Good in Church History -- 1. Division Two: (A) The unchangeable basis of the true church -- 2. Division Two: (B) Christianity's radical break with Judaism -- 3. Division Two: (C) The role of scholarship in church history -- 4. Division Two: (D) Symbols of the inward kingdom.

Appendix III: Understanding Mysteries as Moral Symbols in Communities of Faith -- Part IV: Religion's Hypothetical Application -- 10 Natural Christianity Revealed -- 1. Untitled introduction: True and false service of God -- 2. Part One, Introduction: Approaches to interpreting religion -- 3. Part One, Section One: (A) The moral core of Jesus' teachings -- 4. Part One, Section One: (B) Jesus' teachings on the afterlife -- 11 Learning Statutory Religion without DelusionPart One, Section Two, and Part Two 1-2 (R 163-75) -- 1. Part One, Section Two: (A) Biblical scholarship as a means -- 2. Part One, Section Two: (B) Christian Judaism as prudential -- 3. Part Two, Introduction and 1: The origin of religious delusion -- 4. Part Two, 2: The moral principle opposing religious delusion -- 12 Conscience as the Authentic Guide -- 1. Part Two, 3 Appendix: The deception of priestery -- 2. Part Two, 3: Appendix: Teaching godliness without idolatry -- 3. Part Two, 4: (A) Conscience as the guide for church teaching -- 4. Part Two, 4: (B) Avoiding hypocrisy in affirming creeds -- Appendix IV: Understanding Means of Grace as Indirect Service -- Glossary -- 1. List of revised translations (German to English) -- 2. The rationale for revisions (English to German) -- Works Cited -- A. Sources Contemporary with or Prior to Kant -- B. Secondary Literature -- C. Relevant Works by the Present Author -- D. Other Relevant Works Cited in the Works Listed in Section C -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

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