Lessings exoterische Verteidigung der Orthodoxie

In his early years in Wolfenbüttel, Lessing published a series of writings about philosophy and religion directed against Enlightenment theology. The Enlightenment thinker took the side of dogmatic theology to attack Socinians, Neologists, and Deists. Lessing''s position in these texts remains one of the most controversial issues in Lessing research to this day: why was the well-known freethinker ...