4. The Rationalisation of the Holy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Pope St Clement Adoring the Trinity (1737–1738), oil on canvas, Alte Pinakothek, Munich. Photograph by Bot (Eloquence) (2005), Wikimedia, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giovanni_Battista_Tiepolo_016.jpg The subject of this essay is the rationalisation of religious mysteries, especially that of the Holy Trinity, in German thought between the early Enlightenment and the later stages of philosophical Idealism. The wider context of this .