In this article, I challenge the semiological interpretation of Kant’s Religion, particularly as advanced in recent years by James DiCenso and Allen Wood. As I here argue, their interpretations are neither compatible with broader aspects of Kant’s positive philosophy of religion, nor with how Kant himself describes the project of the Religion. Kant wrote the Religion in order to explore the compatibility between his theologically affirmative pure rational system of religion and Christian doctrines, particularly as understood by the Lutherans and Lutheran Pietists of his era, rather than as a treatise on how to make Christian theology compatible with contemporary secularism.

在这篇文章中，我挑战了康德的宗教符号学解释，尤其是近年来詹姆斯·迪森索和艾伦·伍德提出的观点。正如我在此所论证的，他们的解释既不符合康德积极的宗教哲学的更广泛的方面，也不符合康德本人对宗教计划的描述。康德写《宗教》是为了探索他在神学上肯定的纯理性宗教体系与基督教教义之间的相容性，尤其是他那个时代的路德宗和路德宗虔诚派所理解的，而不是关于如何使基督教神学与当代相容的论文世俗主义。