Author: Reimarus, Hermann Samuel.
Title: The goal of Jesus and his disciples.
Description: Introduction and translation by George Wesley Buchanan. Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1968. Orig. cloth binding. x,143 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Critical English translation of : Von dem Zwecke Jesu und seiner Jünger by Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768), pubished by G.E. Lessing in 1778. Reimarus was a German philosopher and writer of the Enlightenment who is remembered for his Deism, the doctrine that human reason can arrive at a knowledge of God and ethics from a study of nature and our own internal reality, thus eliminating the need for religions based on revelation. He denied the supernatural origin of Christianity, and was the first influential critic to investigate the historical Jesus.

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