An edition of Boehme (1991)
Boehme
An Intellectual Biography of the Seventeenth-Century Philosopher and Mystic
By Andrew Weeks
Publish Date
July 1991
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Language
eng
Pages
280
Description:
This book 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. - Back cover.
subjects: Biography, History, Mysticism, Mystics, Bohme, jakob, 1575-1624
People: Jakob Böhme (1575-1624)
Times: 17th century