An Introduction to Jacob Boehme
Title | An Introduction to Jacob Boehme PDF eBook |
Author | Ariel Hessayon |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2013-08-29 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1135014280 |
This volume brings together for the first time some of the world’s leading authorities on the German mystic Jacob Boehme, to illuminate his thought and its reception over four centuries for the benefit of students and advanced scholars alike. Boehme’s theosophical works have influenced Western culture in profound ways since their dissemination in the early 17th Century, and these interdisciplinary essays trace the social and cultural networks as well as the intellectual pathways involved in Boehme’s enduring impact. The chapters range from situating Boehme in the 16th Century Radical Reformation, to discussions of his significance in modern theology. They explore the major contexts for Boehme’s reception including the Pietist movement, Russian religious thought and Western esotericism, as well as focusing more closely on important readers: the religious radicals of the English Civil Wars and the later English Behmenists; literary figures such as Goethe and Blake, and great philosophers of the modern age, among them Schelling and Hegel. Together, the chapters illustrate the depth and variety of Boehme’s influence and a concluding chapter addresses directly an underlying theme of the volume – asking why Boehme matters today, and how readers in the present might be enriched by a fresh engagement with his apparently opaque and complex writings.
An Introduction to Jacob Boehme
Title | An Introduction to Jacob Boehme PDF eBook |
Author | Ariel Hessayon |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2013-08-29 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1135014299 |
This volume brings together for the first time some of the world’s leading authorities on the German mystic Jacob Boehme, to illuminate his thought and its reception over four centuries for the benefit of students and advanced scholars alike. Boehme’s theosophical works have influenced Western culture in profound ways since their dissemination in the early 17th Century, and these interdisciplinary essays trace the social and cultural networks as well as the intellectual pathways involved in Boehme’s enduring impact. The chapters range from situating Boehme in the 16th Century Radical Reformation, to discussions of his significance in modern theology. They explore the major contexts for Boehme’s reception including the Pietist movement, Russian religious thought and Western esotericism, as well as focusing more closely on important readers: the religious radicals of the English Civil Wars and the later English Behmenists; literary figures such as Goethe and Blake, and great philosophers of the modern age, among them Schelling and Hegel. Together, the chapters illustrate the depth and variety of Boehme’s influence and a concluding chapter addresses directly an underlying theme of the volume – asking why Boehme matters today, and how readers in the present might be enriched by a fresh engagement with his apparently opaque and complex writings.
The Confessions of Jacob Boehme
Title | The Confessions of Jacob Boehme PDF eBook |
Author | Jakob Böhme |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1920 |
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An Introduction to the Study of Jacob Boehme's Writings
Title | An Introduction to the Study of Jacob Boehme's Writings PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Judith Penny |
Publisher | |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | Mysticism |
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Jacob Boehme
Title | Jacob Boehme PDF eBook |
Author | Jakob Böhme |
Publisher | |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781556433573 |
"This anthology serves as an introduction to Boehme's thought and will bring readers deeper into his philosophy. Part One gives biography and context of Boehme's writings and their influence on later scientists, alchemical researchers and poets. Part Two contains selections from Boehme's works grappling with his main themes including the birth of God and the vindication of His goodness. Of particular interest are a number of letters from Boehme which have never appeared previously in English."--BOOK JACKET.
The "Key" of Jacob Boehme
Title | The "Key" of Jacob Boehme PDF eBook |
Author | Jakob Böhme |
Publisher | Red Wheel/Weiser |
Pages | 92 |
Release | 1981-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780933999947 |
Phanes (fa-nays) means "manifester" or "revealer", and is related to the Greek words "light" and "to shine forth". Phanes Press was founded in 1985 to publish quality books on the spiritual, philosophical, and cosmological traditions of the Western world. Since that time, we have published 45 books, including five volumes of Alexandria, a book-length journal of cosmology, philosophy, myth, and culture. The year 2000 marks our fifteen-year anniversary, and we are working to bring out more interdisciplinary works, including books on creativity, psychology, literature, and the intersections between science, spirituality, and culture. The second edition of a volume in the Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series introducing the ideas and spiritual philosophy of a seventeenth-century Christian mystic. As a young man, Boehme, an unschooled shoemaker, experienced an intense vision of the origin of the universe, the struggle of polarities in creation, and the role of Sophia or Divine Wisdom in the world. In trying to find a language to communicate his mystical perceptions, he turned to alchemical ideas and Hermetic imagery. This condensation is taken from William Law's translation of Boehme's complete works, and includes Law's "Illustration of the Deep Principles of Jacob Boehme", with thirteen emblematic figures designed by Dionysius Freher.
The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme
Title | The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme PDF eBook |
Author | Franz Hartmann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1891 |
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