Featuring works by Karl Barth, Martin Buber, Immanuel Kant, Albert Schweitzer, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Rahner, and others, these are the essential writings on religion by German theologians, authors, and philosophers, from the Enlightenment to the present.

Table of Contents

• • Introduction
  • From The Strife of the Faculties    4
  • From Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone    14
  • From “New Hypothesis concerning the Evangelists Regarded as Merely Human Historians”    20
  • “The Christianity of Reason”    27
  • “On the Reality of Things outside God”    29
  • “On the Origin of Revealed Religion”    30
  • “The Religion of Christ, 1780”    32
  • “Epochs of the Spirit – according to Hermann’s Latest Theories”    35
  • From The Destiny of Man    39
  • From Speeches on Religion    49
  • From Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion    60
  • From The World as Will and Representation    75
  • From The Essence of Christianity    86
  • From “Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right”    95
  • From “On the Jewish Question”    96
  • From Human, All Too Human    109
  • From Civilization and Its Discontents    119
  • “Christianity and the History of Religion”    125
  • From On the Eternal in Man    137
  • From “Christianity and the Religions of the World”    150
  • From Eclipse of God    160
  • From Philosophical Faith and Revelation    173
  • From Myth and Religion    175
  • From “Jesus Christ and Mythology”    182
  • From Letters to Rudolf Ehrenberg and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy    191
  • From The Epistle to the Romans    202
  • From Culture and Value    213
  • “Theology and Anthropology”    233
  • From Heart of the World    245