| #2462040 in Books | State University of New York Press | 2002-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x6.00 x.75l,.89 | File type: PDF | 300 pages | ||42 of 46 people found the following review helpful.| Out-Boehming Boehme|By Stephen P. Manning|O'Regan's second work in his projected seven-volume study gives him an opportunity to take the methodology outlined in Gnostic Return in Modernity and to apply it to Jacob Boehme, the father of the Gnostic Return in the post-Reformation West. Boehme's works are fascinating but offputting, even in English translation. His Lutheran||O Regan s Gnostic Apocalypse is exhaustively and densely argued O Regan s significant contribution to scholarship beyond the general need for books on thinkers such as Boehme comes from his enticing suggestion that it is with such important thinkers as Hegel a
Jacob Boehme, the seventeenth-century German speculative mystic, influenced the philosophers Hegel and Schelling and both English and German Romantics alike with his visionary thought. Gnostic Apocalypse focuses on the way Boehme's thought repeats and surpasses post-reformation Lutheran thinking, deploys and subverts the commitments of medieval mysticism, realizes the speculative thrust of Renaissance alchemy, is open to esoteric discourses such as the Kabbalah, and arti...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Gnostic Apocalypse: Jacob's Boehme's Haunted Narrative | Cyril O'Regan. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.