Negotiating Tolerance: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Researching Religion in China

• Main Author: Thurston, Naomi
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Sino-Christian studies; Sino-Christian theology; religious studies in China; theological tolerance; G.E. Lessing; Zhuo Xingping; Yang Huilin; He Guanghu
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/budhi/vol21/iss1/4; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/budhi/article/1348/viewcontent/Budhi_2021.1_204_20Article_20__20Thurston.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Just as G. E. Lessing criticized what he saw as the narrow mindedness of his contemporaries by creating characters that exemplified a morally enlightened rationalism, religious studies scholars in contemporary China have helped instruct and reshape uninformed or generalizing attitudes towards re...