Kant and Judaism and Christianity Against the Background of German Enlightenment

The author discusses the common belief that Kant, rejecting Judaism as the beginning of Christian sacred history, thus denying his organic connection with Christianity, essentially represented the standard view of his era. Contrary to this thesis, he proves that against the background of Enlightenment theology and philosophy, the Kantian concept was atypical or, at the most, radicalized certain marginal tendencies within the German Enlightenment.