Immanuel Kant (1784), “What is Enlightenment?”
Study Questions: What is enlightenment, according to Kant? What
is wrong with religious dogma and authority, according to Kant?
Alvin Plantinga (2000), Warranted Christian Belief,
Part IV, Chapter 12 “Two (or More) Kinds of Scripture Scholarship”
Sections I-IV. Focus on section III: Historical Biblical
Criticism.
Study Questions: Describe the differences between Spinozistic,
Troeltschian, and Duhemian Biblical Criticism. How are these
approaches to Biblical interpretation influenced by the Scientific
Revolution and the Enlightenment?