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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.

Religion-History. --- Eschatology. --- Europe-History-1492-. --- History of Religion. --- History of Early Modern Europe. --- Last things (Theology) --- Religious thought --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Religion—History. --- Europe—History—1492-.

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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. --

Prophets --- Prophètes --- Religion and politics --- Religion et politique --- History --- Gifftheil, Ludwig Friedrich, --- Gifftheil, Christoph Friedrich,

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Jacob Boehme (1575-1624) is famous as a shoemaker and spiritual author. His works and thought are frequently studied as a product of his mystical illumination. 0Jacob Boehme and His World adopts a different perspective. It seeks to demystify Boehme by focusing on aspects of his immediate cultural and social context and the intellectual currents of his time, including Boehme's writing as literature, the social conditions in Goerlitz, Boehme'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 Boehme's philosophical standing, his contributions to pre-Pietism, and early English translations of his works.

1 BÖHME, JACOB --- 141.33 --- 141.33 Filosofische mystiek --- Filosofische mystiek --- 1 BÖHME, JACOB Filosofie. Psychologie--BÖHME, JACOB --- Filosofie. Psychologie--BÖHME, JACOB --- Böhme, Jacob --- Böhme, Jakob, --- Böhme, Giacomo, --- Boehme, Jacob, --- Böhme, Jacob, --- Boehm, Jacob, --- Behmen, Jacob, --- Behme, Jacob, --- Behm, Jacob, --- Teutonicus, --- Teutonicus Philosophus, --- I. B. T., --- T., I. B., --- I. B., --- B., I., --- Teut, I. B., --- A. S., --- S., A., --- Boehme, Jakub, --- Boehme, Jakob, --- Böhme, Jakob --- Böhme, Giacomo --- Boehme, Jacob --- Böhme, Jacob --- Boehm, Jacob --- Behmen, Jacob --- Behme, Jacob --- Behm, Jacob --- Teutonicus --- Teutonicus Philosophus --- I. B. T. --- T., I. B. --- I. B. --- B., I. --- Teut, I. B. --- A. S. --- S., A. --- Boehme, Jakub --- Boehme, Jakob