I have been enjoying Herman Bavinck’s Essays on Religion, Science, and Society recently.  In the first essay, Philosophy Of Religion (Faith), Bavinck addresses the philosophies of Kant and Rousseau, and the effects of the mystical/rational dichotomy found therein:

However, all these orientations, the ethical and mystical as well as the speculative, suffer from a significant one-sidedness.  By limiting religion to one human faculty, they diminish man’s universal character.  They divide man in two and separate what belongs together.  They create a gulf between religion and culture, and they run the danger of reducing religion to moral duty or aesthetic emotion or a philosophic view.  But according to the Christian, confession religion is other than and higher than all those views; religion must not just be something in one’s life, but everything.  Jesus demands that we love God with all our heart, all our soul, all our strength.  In our thinking and living, there can be no division between God and the world, between religion and culture; no one can serve two masters.