Jacob Böhme and his world

Jacob Böhme and his world

Jacob Böhme (1575-1624) is famous as a shoemaker and spiritual author. His works and thought are frequently studied as a product of his mystical illumination. Jacob Böhme and His World adopts a different perspective. It seeks to demystify Böhme by focusing on aspects of his immediate cultural and so...

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Other Authors: Andersson, Bo, 1955- (Editor), Martin, Lucinda, 1965- (Editor), Penman, Leigh (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Brill : Boston, [2018]

Series: Aries Book Series 25.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353350.

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Böhme, Jakob, > 1575-1624.

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Call Number: BV5095.B7

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Abbreviations of Jacob Böhme's Works
  • Figures
  • Contributors
  • Introduction: Jacob Böhme and His World
  • Jacob Böhme's Writings in the Context of His World /
  • Andrew Weeks and Bo Andersson
  • The Rhetoric of Presence: Reflections on Jacob Böhme's Writing /
  • Bo Andersson
  • The City of Görlitz during Jacob Böhme's Lifetime /
  • Ines Haaser (Anders)
  • Jacob Böhme and His Networks /
  • Leigh T.I. Penman
  • Martin Moller (1547-1606) and the "Crisis of Piety" of Jacob Böhme's Time /
  • Lucinda Martin
  • Johann Arndt (1555-1621) and the "Crisis of Piety" of Jacob Böhme's Time /
  • Kristine Hannak
  • The New Adam: Jacob Böhme and the Theology of Paracelsus (1493/94-1541) /
  • Urs Leo Gantenbein
  • "Out of Himself, to Himself": The Kabbalah of Jacob Böhme /
  • Gerold Necker
  • Jacob Böhme, Johannes Staricius (ca. 1580-??), and the Culture of Dissent /
  • Andrew Weeks
  • The Science of the Stars in Jacob Böhme's World /
  • Lutz Pannier
  • Jacob Böhme and Alchemy: A Transmutation in Three Stages /
  • Mike A. Zuber
  • "A Philosopher Does Not Stand Still": Legacies and Receptions of the "Philosophus Teutonicus" /
  • Cecilia Muratori
  • Spiritualism and Cultures of Dissent: Johann Theodor von Tschesch (1595-1649) Interprets Jacob Böhme /
  • Tünde Beatrix Karnitscher
  • Jacob Böhme's Foremost Seventeenth-Century English Translator: John Sparrow (1615-1670) of Essex /
  • Ariel Hessayon
  • Concluding Bibliographical Remarks /
  • Lucinda Martin and Leigh T.I. Penman.