Allen W. Wood Quotes
Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.
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This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.
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This is one of the hard-and-fast ironies of the Christian tradition: views that at one time were the majority opinion, or at least that were widely seen as completely acceptable, eventually came to be left behind; and as theology moved forward to become increasingly nuanced and sophisticated, these earlier majority opinions came to be condemned as heresies. We have seen this movement already with the exaltation Christology that was the original form of Christian belief. By the second century it was widely deemed heretical. Later understandings of the second century were acceptable and dominant in their day, but they too came to be suspect and even spurned.
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Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.
