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Hope and Heresy

The Problem of Chiliasm in Lutheran Confessional Culture, 1570–1630

By: Leigh T.I. Penman

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Hope and Heresy

The Problem of Chiliasm in Lutheran Confessional Culture, 1570–1630

By: Leigh T.I. Penman

Apocalyptic expectations played a key role in defining the horizons of life and expectation in early modern Europe. Hope and Heresy investigates the problematic status of a particular kind of apocalyptic expectation—that of a future felicity on earth before the Last Judgement—within Lutheran confessional culture between approximately 1570 and 1630. Among Lutherans expectations of a future felicity were often considered manifestations of a heresy called chiliasm, because they contravened the pessimistic apocalyptic outlook at the core of confessional identity. However, during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, individuals raised within Lutheran confessional culture—mathematicians, metallurgists, historians, astronomers, politicians, and even theologians—began to entertain and publicise hopes of a future earthly felicity. Their hopes were countered by accusations of heresy. The ensuing contestation of acceptable doctrine became a flashpoint for debate about the boundaries of confessional identity itself. Based on a thorough study of largely neglected or overlooked print and manuscript sources, the present study examines these debates within their intellectual, social, cultural, and theological contexts. It outlines, for the first time, a heretofore overlooked debate about the limits and possibilities of eschatological thought in early modernity, and provides readers with a unique look at a formative time in the apocalyptic imagination of European culture.

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Prophecy, Madness, and Holy War in Early Modern Europe

A Life of Ludwig Friedrich Gifftheil

By: Leigh T. I. Penman

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Prophecy, Madness, and Holy War in Early Modern Europe

A Life of Ludwig Friedrich Gifftheil

By: Leigh T. I. Penman

This book documents the political and religious turmoil of seventeenth century Europe by exploring the life and doctrines of the German barber surgeon turned prophet, Ludwig Friedrich Gifftheil (1595-1661). Inspired by family tragedy and theosophical religious writings, between 1624 and 1661 Gifftheil stalked Europe's battlefields, petitioning kings, princes, and emperors to end the warfare endemic on the continent. Convinced that all conflict was prompted by 'false prophets'-by which Gifftheil meant the clergy of Europe's Christian confessions-he pleaded with rulers to abjure the counsel of their advisors and institute instead a godly peace. When this approach proved fruitless, Gifftheil reinvented himself by taking up his sword as 'God's warrior.' Thereby he embarked on a quest to recruit an army of the righteous to wage holy war, and establish peace with the blade of his sword. This work examines the growth and fallout of Gifftheil's mission and its reception among Europe's religious dissenters-including figures such as Abraham von Franckenberg and Quirinus Kuhlmann-as well as the results of his strivings in European political circles. Gifftheil's story reveals an alternative transnational history of religious and political dissent in the seventeenth century. It casts new light on the place of prophecy and madness in the negotiation of religious authority, the origins of the theosophical current, and the stranger apocalyptic impulses at the roots of Pietism and missionary Christianity"--

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Oxford University Press

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019762393X

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The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism

The Early Modern Origins of the Intellectual Ideal

By: Leigh T.I. Penman

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The Early Modern Origins of the Intellectual Ideal

By: Leigh T.I. Penman

The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism challenges our most basic assumptions about the history of an ideal at the heart of modernity. Beginning in antiquity and continuing through to today, Leigh T.I. Penman examines how European thinkers have understood words like 'kosmopolites', 'cosmopolite', 'cosmopolitan' and its cognates. The debates over their meanings show that there has never been a single, stable cosmopolitan concept, but rather a range of concepts-sacred and secular, inclusive and exclusive-all described with the cosmopolitan vocabulary. While most scholarly attention in the history of cosmopolitanism has focussed on Greek and Roman antiquity or the Enlightenments of the 18th century, this book shows that the crucial period in the evolution of modern cosmopolitanism was early modernity. Between 1500 and 1800 philosophers, theologians, cartographers, jurists, politicians, alchemists and heretics all used this vocabulary, shedding ancient associations, and adding new ones at will. The chaos of discourses prompted thinkers to reflect on the nature of the cosmopolitan ideal, and to conceive of an abstract 'cosmopolitanism' for the first time. This meticulously researched book provides the first intellectual history of an overlooked period in the evolution of a core ideal. As such, The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism is an essential work for anyone seeking a contextualised understanding of cosmopolitanism today.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350156981

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DE TRIBUS PRINCIPIIS, oder Beschreibung der Drey Principien Göttliches Wesens

Of the Three Principles of Divine Being, 1619, by Jacob Boehme

By: Andrew Weeks,Leigh Penman

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DE TRIBUS PRINCIPIIS, oder Beschreibung der Drey Principien Göttliches Wesens

Of the Three Principles of Divine Being, 1619, by Jacob Boehme

By: Andrew Weeks,Leigh Penman

Jacob Boehme’s Of the Three Principles of Divine Being, 1619, is vital for understanding his work as a whole, its relationship to its epoch, and its role in intellectual history. Reproduced here using the methods of critical edition, the original of the work and its adjacent translation, together with an extensive introduction and commentary, provide unprecedented access to this essential work of early modern thought and cast a fresh light on the revolutionary theological, philosophical, and scientific developments coinciding with the start of the Thirty Years’ War. The 1730 edition is annotated with reference to the manuscript sources to clarify ambiguities so that the translation can interpret the text without refracting its meaning. This makes it possible to interpret Boehme’s complex theories of the origin of the divine being and of nature, the human creature, and the female aspect of divinity.

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The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism

The Early Modern Origins of the Intellectual Ideal

By: Leigh T.I. Penman

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Prophecy, Madness, and Holy War in Early Modern Europe

A Life of Ludwig Friedrich Gifftheil

By: Leigh T. I. Penman

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Hope and Heresy

The Problem of Chiliasm in Lutheran Confessional Culture, 1570–1630

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The Problem of Chiliasm in Lutheran Confessional Culture, 1570–1630

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Hope and Heresy

Hope and Heresy

Prophecy, Madness, and Holy War in Early Modern Europe

Prophecy, Madness, and Holy War in Early Modern Europe

The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism

The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism

DE TRIBUS PRINCIPIIS, oder Beschreibung der Drey Principien Göttliches Wesens

DE TRIBUS PRINCIPIIS, oder Beschreibung der Drey Principien Göttliches Wesens

The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism

The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism

Prophecy, Madness, and Holy War in Early Modern Europe

Prophecy, Madness, and Holy War in Early Modern Europe

Hope and Heresy

Hope and Heresy

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