Essence of Catholicism

Peter Forrest argues that Essential Catholicism is the one and only religion to which reasonable humanists could commit. Drawing on Immanuel Kant''s Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason and Ludwig Feuerbach''s The Essence of Christianity, he provides an in-depth philosophical investigation into the synthesis of Catholicism and the Enlightenment.

In this nuanced study humanity and divinity are...