J. M. Goeze

German clergyman

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In Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Final years at Wolfenbüttel. of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
…the chief pastor of Hamburg, J.M. Goeze. Against this rigid dogmatist, who was a man of almost pharisaical narrow-mindedness, Lessing launched some of his most cutting polemics, notably “Anti-Goeze” (1778), in which he expounded his belief that the search for truth is more valuable than the certainty gained by clinging…
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