Jacob Böhme and His World

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38385-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 386 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 695 g

Reihe: Aries Book Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andersson, Bo

Martin, Lucinda

Penman, Leigh

Weeks, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations of Jacob Böhme’s Works

List of Illustrations

Contributors



Introduction: Jacob Böhme and His World

Andrew Weeks and Bo Andersson


1 Jacob Böhme’s Writings in the Context of His World

Andrew Weeks and Bo Andersson


2 The Rhetoric of Presence: Reflections on Jacob Böhme’s Writing

Bo Andersson

3 The City of Görlitz during Jacob Böhme’s Lifetime

Ines Haaser (Anders)

4 Jacob Böhme and His Networks

Leigh T.I. Penman

5 Martin Moller (1547–1606) and the “Crisis of Piety” of Jacob Böhme’s Time

Lucinda Martin


6 Johann Arndt (1555–1621) and the “Crisis of Piety” of Jacob Böhme’s Time

Kristine Hannak


7 The New Adam: Jacob Böhme and the Theology of Paracelsus (1493/94–1541)

Urs Leo Gantenbein


8 “Out of Himself, to Himself”: The Kabbalah of Jacob Böhme

Gerold Necker


9 Jacob Böhme, Johannes Staricius (ca. 1580–??), and the Culture of Dissent

Andrew Weeks


10 The Science of the Stars in Jacob Böhme’s World

Lutz Pannier


11 Jacob Böhme and Alchemy: A Transmutation in Three Stages

Mike A. Zuber


12 “A Philosopher Does Not Stand Still”: Legacies and Receptions of the “Philosophus Teutonicus”

Cecilia Muratori


13 Spiritualism and Cultures of Dissent: Johann Theodor von Tschesch (1595–1649) Interprets Jacob Böhme

Tünde Beatrix Karnitscher


14 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


Index of Names

Index of Places

Index of Topics

Index of Bible Quotations and References

Index of Biblical Names

Über Autor(innen)

Bo Andersson, Fil. dr. (1986), Stockholm University, is Professor of German at Uppsala University. He has published monographs and many articles on 17th century German language, literature, and intellectual history, including Jacob Böhmes Denken in Bildern (Francke, 2007).

Lucinda Martin, Ph.D. (2002), University of Texas, is Director of a German Research Council project on Jacob Böhme and the Philadelphian Society at the University of Erfurt. She is also the co-curator of a series of international exhibits on Böhme.

Leigh T.I. Penman, Ph.D. (2009), University of Melbourne, is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland.

Andrew Weeks, Ph.D. (1979), University of Illinois, is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Illinois State University and has published monographs on Paracelsus, Weigel, and Böhme, as well as translations of their writings.

Contributors are: Bo Andersson, Urs Leo Gantenbein, Ines Haaser, Kristine Hannak, Ariel Hessayon, Tünde Beatrix Karnitscher, Lucinda Martin, Cecilia Muratori, Gerold Necker, Lutz Pannier, Leigh T.I. Penman, Andrew Weeks, Mike A. Zuber