Abbreviations
Note on Texts and Translations
Introduction
1: Lessing and Christianity
2: The Religious Thought of the Young Lessing
3: The Controversy between Lessing and Goeze
4: Lessing's "Ugly Broad Ditch"
5: Nathan the Wise and Lessing's "Ideal of Humanity"
6: Lessing's Basic Thought in The Education of the Human Race
7: Lessing's "Spinozism"
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Born in Japan, Toshimasa Yasukata received a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. He is now Professor of European Intellectual History at Seigakuin University in Saitama, Japan. Among his previous publications is Ernst Troeltsch: Systematic Theologian of Radical Historicality, which appeared in the American Academy of Religion's Academy Series. His current research centers on Sebastian Franck and panentheism.

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"A masterful entry gate to the thought of Lessing and the issues surrounding this thinker."-- Philosophia Christi
"The most comprehensive work we have in English on Lessing's religious views and a very welcoms supplement to more specialized studies of specific features of Lessing's religious thought."-- The Journal of Religion
"A masterful entry gate to the thought of Lessing and the issues surrounding this thinker."-- Philosophia Christi

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