ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents a misleading legacy of Enlightenment epistemology. It examines how recent contemporary hermeneutical proposals on the reading of Scripture tend to be prone to these problems and neglect these fundamental issues in that they still (to various degrees) accept the limiting terms of the Enlightenment for reading. Some relevant passages in Immanuel Kant's corpus, how he imposes immanent limits on both the knowing agent as well as the object in the epistemological action of creating or building knowledge. Notions about God, Kant says, can be no more than "beliefs" in that they proceed from a subjective a priori awareness of a "purposive unity" that is rooted both in the world and in one's moral nature yet are lacking in any possible objective demonstration. Kant denies any appropriate role for antecedent judgments in the investigation of metaphysical knowledge.
