Jacob Böhme and His World
Jacob Böhme and His World

Author: Bo Andersson

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-12

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9004385096

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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 social context and the intellectual currents of his time, including Böhme’s writing as literature, the social conditions in Görlitz, Böhme’s correspondence networks, a contemporary “crisis of piety,” Paracelsian and kabbalistic currents, astrology, astronomy and alchemy, and his relationship to other dissenting authors. Relevant facets of reception include Böhme’s philosophical standing, his contributions to pre-Pietism, and early English translations of his works.

The Radical Reformation
The Radical Reformation

Author: Michael G. Baylor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1991-10-31

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780521379489

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This 1991 collection of writings by early Reformation radicals illustrates both the diversity and the areas of agreement in their political thinking.

Martyrs Mirror
Martyrs Mirror

Author: Thieleman Janszoon Braght

Publisher: Herald Press

Published: 1938-12-12

Total Pages: 1320

ISBN-13:

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Here is a collection of accounts of more than 4011 Christians burned at the stake, of countless bodies torn on the rack, torn tongues, ears, hands, feet, gouged eyes, people buried alive, and of many who were willing to bear the cross of persecution and death for the sake of Christ.

Popular Culture and Popular Movements in Reformation Germany
Popular Culture and Popular Movements in Reformation Germany

Author: R. W. Scribner

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1988-07-01

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 0826431003

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The Reformation has traditionally been explained in terms of theology, the corruption of the church and the role of princes. R.W. Scribner, while not denying the importance of these, shifts the context of study of the German Reformation to an examination of popular beliefs and behaviour, and of the reactions of local authorities to the problems and opportunities for social as well as religious reform. This book brings together a coherent body of work that has appeared since 1975, including two entirely new essays and two previously published only in German.