ABSTRACT
Religion has to do with an existential relation to transcendence. In its traditional more developed form metaphysical thought constituted initially an organic unity with (see Hossein Nasr 1989) and later the rational framework for this existential relation. Through Kant’s philosophy, the point of gravity shifted from the metaphysical realm into the anthropological dimension. Pascal’s ‘God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob’ had first become the God of rational metaphysics, to be finally put to rest by Kant, the ‘destroyer of all metaphysics’. If the God of metaphysics is dead it has to be from within the human experiential dimension that for both Jung and Berdyaev a new God-image now has to take shape. We will want to understand more clearly what role Kant plays for both as a necessary prelude to a deeper exploration of the inner connection between their conception of the person and the God-image.
