God, the Mind'S Desire: Reference, Reason and Christian Thinking

"This book reconfigures the basic problem of Christian thinking or theological cognition as a twofold demand for integrity: integrity of reason and integrity of transcendence. Centring around a faithful re-reading of Kant's empirical realism, and drawing on a confluence of contemporary thinkers, Paul D. Janz argues that theology's 'referent' must be located within present empirical reality. This book provides an important, attentively informed alternative to the growing trends toward obscurantism, radicalization, and anti-reason in many recent assessments of theological cognition, while remaining equally alert to the hazards of traditional metaphysics. In the book's culmination, epistemology and Christology converge around problems of noetic authority and orthodoxy."--BOOK JACKET.