Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768)

Dietrich Klein's book on Hermann Samuel Reimarus, the famous radical enlightened critic of the Bible, presents a complete overview of Reimarus' theological writings, their contents, their intentions, both critical and apologetic, their historical background and their place in Reimarus' intellectual biography. Klein's study explores the back of Lessing's »Wolfenbüttel Fragments« and focuses on how the Radical Enlightenment in Germany was rooted in Protestant theology and thought. As a learned critic and an apologist for Protestant truth, Reimarus was a distinguished European scholar.