Critiques of Theology: German-Jewish Intellectuals and the Religious Sources of Secular Thought

Argues that the modern practice of critique emerged out of religious traditions and can in many ways be traced back to them.

It seems hard to imagine a concept more significant to modern thought than critique. Critique involved distancing oneself from religious explanations and theological argumentation and came to represent the essence of secular consciousness's potential to deliver modernity's promise of human progress through rational inquiry and scientific development. Critiques of Theol...