Reimarus and the Religious Enlightenment: His Apologetic Project
Intellectual history abounds with writers who were celebrated figures in their own time but who are scarcely remembered today; whereas others emerge from obscurity to become canonical figures in their disciplines. Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) does not quite fit either model: he was a respecte...
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| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2018]
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The expository times
Year: 2018, Volume: 129, Issue: 6, Pages: 245-253 |
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| Summary: | Intellectual history abounds with writers who were celebrated figures in their own time but who are scarcely remembered today; whereas others emerge from obscurity to become canonical figures in their disciplines. Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) does not quite fit either model: he was a respected scholar in his own lifetime and, as other contributors to this issue demonstrate, he was certainly not forgotten. But his posthumous reputation, whether as innovator or infidel, has often been narrowly conceived, focused as it was on (literally) fragments of his work.1 In this article I shall attempt to do three things: (1) contextualise the renewed interest in Reimarus for eighteenth-century intellectual history; (2) foreground the robust natural theology he promoted in his lifetime; and (3) show the continuities between that positive programme, and some of Reimarus's more famous writings attacking Christianity. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5308 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0014524617744991 |