part in moral affections and even induce a divine sense of awe about the promise of human moral goodness, one’s belief in God would not ensure morality. In other words, morality could not be assured by one’s belief in God, since faith is beyond the scope of pure reason. Contrary to prevailing Enlightenment thought, however, the answer to the limitations and decline of religion’s power as moral authority was not its opposite for Kant. Moral authority could not be grounded in enlightened self-interest