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Often appears with: the nature and attributes of God · moral theology · transcendental theology · teleological unity of nature · supreme will attributes · religious persecution and toleration · reason and the intellect · rational theology · natural theology · justice as a virtue · deism vs theism
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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…
Kant develops a moral theology: moral unity requires a single omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal supreme will, linking moral order to teleological unity and turning natural investigation into physico-theology and transcendental theology.
cause, founds, maintains, and fulfils the universal order of things, with the most perfect teleological harmony, however much this order may be hidden from us in the world of sense. This moral theology has the peculiar advantage, in contrast with speculative theology, of leading inevitably to the conception of a sole, perfect, and rational First Cause, whereof speculative theology does not give us any indication on …