The shadow of God : Kant, Hegel, and the passage from heaven to history /

"Michael Rosen shows how the redemptive hope of religion became the redemptive hope of historical progress. This was the heart of German Idealism: purpose lay not in God's judgment but in worldly projects; freedom required not being subject to arbitrary authority, human or divine. Yet purpose and fr...

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Main Author:	Rosen, Michael, 1952- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.
Subjects:	Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, > 1770-1831. Philosophy and religion > Germany. History > Philosophy. Secularism > Germany. Secularization (Theology) Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804. Philosophy and religion. History. Secularism. Germany.
Summary:	"Michael Rosen shows how the redemptive hope of religion became the redemptive hope of historical progress. This was the heart of German Idealism: purpose lay not in God's judgment but in worldly projects; freedom required not being subject to arbitrary authority, human or divine. Yet purpose and freedom never shed their theistic structure"--