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Lessing's theological writings : selections in translation
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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 natur...
"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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- Creator
- with an introductory essay by Henry Chadwick
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1957
- ©1956
- Physical Details
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- 110 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 0804703353, 9780804703352
- OCLC
- ocm06714574
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: page 107.
- The old orthodoxy and the fragments of Reimarus -- History and revelation -- On the proof of the spirit and of power -- The testament of John -- Necessary answer to a very unnecessary question -- New hypothesis concerning the evangelists regarded as merely human historians -- The education of the human race -- The christianity of reason -- On the reality of things outside God -- On the origin of revealed religion -- The religion of Christ