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Chapter 8 - Kant’s Jesus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2014

Gordon Michalson
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New College, Florida
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The main themes that interested Neologists were the problems posed by Lutheran orthodoxy and Pietism on the one hand, and by religious skepticism and deism, on the other. Most of them were anti-Trinitarian. Christological questions were pushed into the background. They were trying to express the most essential insights of Christianity in a form accessible to enlightened people. This chapter represents first the view of Reimarus; second, that of Semler. It then offers a discussion of the relevant similarities and differences of Immanuel Kant's view, and finally discusses some reflections on the significance of the results. Differentiating between theistic and demonic miracles, Kant completely dismisses demonic miracles and claims that one possesses only a negative criterion with regard to theistic miracles, that is, one can most definitely say that something cannot be a miracle, if it is in conflict with morality.
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Print publication year: 2014

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