Boehme: An Intellectual Biography of the Seventeenth-Century Philosopher and Mystic
This is a biography of one of the most original and one of the least understood seminal writers of the Baroque world, Jacob Boehme.

In a period tormented by mysteries and controversies, Boehme's visionary mysticism responded to the vexing quandaries confronting his contemporaries. His concerns included the apocalyptic religious disputes of his day, the havoc wrought by the Thirty Years' War in his region, the disintegration of the Old Middle European order, the rise of new cosmic models from avant-garde heliocentrism to obscure esoteric theories, and his endeavor to express by means of codes and symbols a new sense of the human, divine, and natural realms.
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Boehme: An Intellectual Biography of the Seventeenth-Century Philosopher and Mystic
This is a biography of one of the most original and one of the least understood seminal writers of the Baroque world, Jacob Boehme.

In a period tormented by mysteries and controversies, Boehme's visionary mysticism responded to the vexing quandaries confronting his contemporaries. His concerns included the apocalyptic religious disputes of his day, the havoc wrought by the Thirty Years' War in his region, the disintegration of the Old Middle European order, the rise of new cosmic models from avant-garde heliocentrism to obscure esoteric theories, and his endeavor to express by means of codes and symbols a new sense of the human, divine, and natural realms.
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Boehme: An Intellectual Biography of the Seventeenth-Century Philosopher and Mystic

Boehme: An Intellectual Biography of the Seventeenth-Century Philosopher and Mystic

by Andrew Weeks
Boehme: An Intellectual Biography of the Seventeenth-Century Philosopher and Mystic

Boehme: An Intellectual Biography of the Seventeenth-Century Philosopher and Mystic

by Andrew Weeks

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This is a biography of one of the most original and one of the least understood seminal writers of the Baroque world, Jacob Boehme.

In a period tormented by mysteries and controversies, Boehme's visionary mysticism responded to the vexing quandaries confronting his contemporaries. His concerns included the apocalyptic religious disputes of his day, the havoc wrought by the Thirty Years' War in his region, the disintegration of the Old Middle European order, the rise of new cosmic models from avant-garde heliocentrism to obscure esoteric theories, and his endeavor to express by means of codes and symbols a new sense of the human, divine, and natural realms.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780791405970
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 07/03/1991
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Upper Lusatia

2. The Genesis of Boehme's Vision

3. The Twofold Aurora

4. The Three Worlds

5. The Fire-World

6. The Mirror of Darkness

7. The Will to Revelation

8. Boehme's Last Year

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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