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Often appears with: the nature and attributes of God · religious persecution and toleration · rational theology · physico-theology · natural theology · moral theology
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Kant defines theology as rational cognition (transcendental or natural theology) or revelation, distinguishes deism from theism, and classifies physico-theology and moral theology by what order they infer.
If by the term theology I understand the cognition of a primal being, that cognition is based either upon reason alone (theologia rationalis) or upon revelation (theologia revelata). The former cogitates its object either by means of pure transcendental conceptions, as an ens originarium, realissimum, ens entium, and is termed transcendental theology; or, by means of a conception derived from the nature of our own mi…