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7 - Jacobi’s Response to Religious Nihilism

from Part II - Faith and Revelation: Debates on Theism, Atheism, and Nihilism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2023

By
Peter Jonkers
Edited by
Alexander J. B. Hampton
Alexander J. B. Hampton
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

This chapter examines Jacobi’s critique of traditional philosophical theology and what he considered to be its conceptual annihilation of the reality of God. What emerges is that Jacobi had a refined understanding of the seductive workings of instrumental reason, proposing an alternative philosophical theology by which immediate faith in God must be confirmed in reflection.

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rational theologylogical enthusiasmnot-unphilosophical faithreasonunderstandingnihilism
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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment
Religion, Philosophy, and Reason at the Crux of Modernity
 , pp. 124 - 138
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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