The common view has it that during the Enlightenment the theoretical study of religion broke decisively with its theological past.Recently,this view has been contested by S.N.Balagangadhara,who argues that the explanations of the origin of religion from Hume to Freud simply smuggled in theology as the science of religion.This article takes Ludwig Feuerbach's theory of religion as a test case and shows that it is founded on a number of Christian beliefs concerning the relation of Christianity to humanity and its various religious traditions.The full scope of the argument is revealed when it turns out that the intelligibility of contemporary theorizing on the causes of religion is equally dependent on the background presence of the framework of Christian theology.

Reviews the book `Business, Banking and Economic Thought in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Selected Studies of Raymond de Roover,' by Raymond de Roover and edited by Julius Kirshner.