Lessing's Theological Writings: Selections in Translation (Library of Modern Religious Thought)

by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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"Though starting from a deist standpoint, Lessing raised the questions that have dominated theology up to our own time ... Progressive revelation, historical inevitability, the relation between natural and supernatural, or between faith and historical events--all these issues were foreseen by Lessing. The volume contains nine of his short treatises, all provocative"--The Times Literary Supplement.… (more)

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"Though starting from a deist standpoint, Lessing raised the questions that have dominated theology up to our own time ... Progressive revelation, historical inevitability, the relation between natural and supernatural, or between faith and historical events--all these issues were foreseen by Lessing. The volume contains nine of his short treatises, all provocative"--The Times Literary Supplement.

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