Rovira, Rogelio2023-06-222023-06-222023-05-080020704710.1007/s11153-023-09872-3https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/72196Why in the Critique of Practical Reason is moral religion presented as a doctrine of the postulates of pure practical reason, of which Christian morality, considered as a philosophical doctrine, is an illustration, whereas in the Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason moral religion is ultimately identified with a particular moral interpretation of the religious dogmas of Christianity? In this essay, I propose to answer this question by examining a thesis of Kant’s that has scarcely been considered. This is the thesis that, as with other philosophical disciplines, moral religion consists of a pure part and an applied part. The reasons for the bipartite division of moral religion—confirmed also by the findings of Kant’s third Critique—not only provide a direct, explicit, and maybe sufficient answer to the question posed, but also shed light on the role of Christianity in Kant’s conception of religion.spaAtribución-NoComercial 3.0 Españahttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es/journal articlehttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-023-09872-3open accessKant · Moral religion · Christianity · Moral anthropology · Rational faith · HopeFilosofíaÉticaMetafísica72 Filosofía71 Ética7203.03 Metafísica, Ontología