Outputs (36)

A Kantian Response to the Problem of Evil: Living in the Moral World (2023)
Journal Article

James Sterba has presented a powerful and existentially sincere form of the problem of evil, arguing that it is logically impossible for God to exist, given that there are powerful moral requirements to prevent evil, where one can, and that these req... Read More about A Kantian Response to the Problem of Evil: Living in the Moral World.

Kant and the Divine: From Contemplation to the Moral Law (2020)
Book

Kant, Divinity and Autonomy (2019)
Journal Article

I suggest that in Kant’s conception of autonomy, we have a faithful variant of a perennial philosophical conception of divinity, distinctively re-configured by Kant’s own preoccupations and system, but still recognisably oriented around some philosop... Read More about Kant, Divinity and Autonomy.

Free Belief: The Medieval Heritage in Kant’s Moral Faith (2019)
Journal Article

I argue that insofar as Kant describes faith as a free-choice, he is aligned with the medieval tradition, and with his own sources that mediate this heritage (in particular, Leibniz and Locke). The medieval tradition consistently, affirmatively, and... Read More about Free Belief: The Medieval Heritage in Kant’s Moral Faith.

Theology and Politics: the Intellectual History of Liberalism (2019)
Book Chapter
Insole, C. J. (2021). Theology and Politics: the Intellectual History of Liberalism. In A. Rowlands, A. Daughton, & E. Phillips (Eds.), T&T Clark Reader in Political Theology. T&T Clark/Bloomsbury

Realism and Anti-Realism (2017)
Book Chapter
Insole, C. J. (2017). Realism and Anti-Realism. In W. J. Abraham, & F. D. Aquino (Eds.), Oxford Handbook to the Epistemology of Testimony. Oxford University Press

The Intolerable God: Kant's Theological Journey (2016)
Book

The thought of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is often regarded as having caused a crisis for theology and religion because it sets the limits of knowledge to what can be derived from experience. In The Intolerable God Christopher Insole challenges that a... Read More about The Intolerable God: Kant's Theological Journey.

Kant on Christianity, Religion and Politics: Three Hopes, Three Limits (2015)
Journal Article
Insole, C. (2016). Kant on Christianity, Religion and Politics: Three Hopes, Three Limits. Studies in Christian Ethics, 29(1), 14-33. https://doi.org/10.1177/0953946815611111

This article makes two key claims in succession. First of all, Kant’s own religious hope is significantly and studiedly distanced from the traditions of Christianity that he would have received, in ways that have not yet been fully, or widely, apprec... Read More about Kant on Christianity, Religion and Politics: Three Hopes, Three Limits.

A Thomistic Reading of Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: Searching for the Unconditioned (2015)
Journal Article
Insole, C. (2015). A Thomistic Reading of Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: Searching for the Unconditioned. Modern Theology, 31(2), 284-311. https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.12145

Kant and the Creation of Freedom: a Response to Terry Godlove (2014)
Journal Article
Insole, C. J. (2014). Kant and the Creation of Freedom: a Response to Terry Godlove. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 72(3), 111-128. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-014-9455-4