Approach Quote by Allen W. Wood

Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony with modernity,…

— Allen W. Wood

“If religion addresses a genuine sphere of understanding and human necessity, then it should be susceptible to progress; its doctrines should become more useful,…

— Sam Harris

Kant's treatments of rational theology and metaphysics were aimed primarily at theoretical questions. His attitude toward the pseudo-sciences of "special metaphysics" in Wolff and…

— Allen W. Wood

Kant did think he had a moral route back to rational faith in God, for those who need it, and he thought that at…

— Allen W. Wood

Popular religion since the time of Kant and Fichte has gone in a direction they tried to prevent and that has been disastrous for…

— Allen W. Wood

One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas…

— Edith Hamilton

It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so…

— Girolamo Savonarola

No religion is perfect, not after man gets through with it.

— Christopher Pike

Religion itself cannot but be dynamic which is why "return" is an incorrect term. A return to the forms of religion which perhaps existed…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Theology has, since Kant's time, become a theology of consciousness and experience and thus loses itself in religious anthropology.”

— Herman Bavinck

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

— Sigmund Freud

If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a…

— Sigmund Freud