Palmquist’s Commentary provides the first definitive clarification on Kant’s Philosophy of Religion in English; it includes the full text of Pluhar’s translation, interspersed with explanations, providing both a detailed overview and an original interpretation of Kant’s work.

• Offers definitive, sentence-level commentary on Kant’s Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason
• Presents a thoroughly revised version of Pluhar’s translation of the full text of Kant’s Religion, including detailed notes comparing the translation with the others still in use today
• Identifies most of the several hundred changes Kant made to the second (1794) edition and unearths evidence that many major changes were responses to criticisms of the first edition
• Provides both a detailed overview and original interpretation of Kant’s work on the philosophy of religion
• Demonstrates that Kant’s arguments in Religion are not only cogent, but have clear and profound practical applications to the way religion is actually practiced in the world today
• Includes a glossary aimed at justifying new translations of key technical terms in Religion, many of which have previously neglected religious and theological implications