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What role, if any, do Immanuel Kant and post-Kantian idealists such as Hegel play in shaping modern theology? In Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit , known theologian Gary Dorrien argues that Kantian and post-Kantian idealism were instrumental in the building blocks and development of modern Religious theology. In this particular thought-provoking new work, Dorrien contends that while pre-Kantian rationalism offered a critique of religion's specialist, it organised no theory about the creative powers of brain, nor about the spiritual ground and unifying fact of independence. As Kant provided both of these, he can be considered the originator of modern spiritual thought. Dorrien discloses how the post-Kantian idealists also enjoyed an important role, by fashioning other types of liberal spiritual thought through choice solutions to the Kantian problems of subjectivity and dualism. Dorrien carefully dissects Kant's three critiques of reason and his moral conception of religion, and analyses the alternatives to Kant proposed by Schleiermacher, Schelling, Hegel, while others. Dorrien goes on to give a substantial account of the introduction of liberal theology in Britain , and the idea of Paul Tillich and Karl Barth, exhibiting how these, as well as the dominant traditions of German liberal theology, and even the powerful critiques of liberal spiritual idealism proffered by Kierkegaard and the left-Hegelian institution, were rooted in Kantian or post-Kantian idealism. Delivering these notoriously difficult quarrels in a wonderfully lucid and accessible manner, Dorrien solidifies his reputation as a pre-eminent cultural ethicist. Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit offers deeply illuminating insights into the impact of 19 th -century philosophical idealism on modern-day spiritual thought. Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Teacher of Community Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Teacher of Religious beliefs at Columbia School. He is the writer of more than a dozen books, like the highly-acclaimed trilogy The Making of Liberal Theology (2001, 2003, 2006), and Community Ethics in the Making: Interpreting an American Traditions (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008, 2010).
