ABSTRACT
In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant attacks the ontological, cosmological, and physico-theological (design) arguments, challenges the grounds used for the existence and immortality of the soul, and even contends that we cannot, through theoretical reason alone, formulate an adequate conception of anything within the realm of the supernatural, including God. On the basis of these and related objections, many have come to see Kant as no friend to religion, having created, so it seems, substantial barriers to any credible positive theology. 1 This, however, was not his intention. Although his writings contain numerous arguments against many religious tenets, they are not actually against these tenets as such, but against how they have been appropriated by the metaphysical tradition.
