Jacob Boehme: Essential Readings

by Jakob Böhme

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso

Genres: Religion

239 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Jakob Böhme (probably April 24, 1575[1] – November 17, 1624) was a German Christian mystic and theologian. He is considered an original thinker within the Lutheran tradition, and his first book, commonly known as Aurora, caused a great scandal. In contemporary English, his name may be spelled Jacob Boehme; in seventeenth-century England it was also spelled Behmen, approximating the contemporary English pronunciation of the German Böhme.

Reviews

[Jeff]

This is NOT the title of the Jakob Boehme book which I am reading. I am reading THE AURORA. It was his first book and was never finished because the church read an excerpt and banished him. He, thereafter, wrote in secrecy. I am "wading through" the text with great difficulty since it is a poor translation from the German. Boehme is highly regarded and referenced by such later philosophers and academics as Buber, Nietzsche, Jung, and Wesley-who required all of his preachers to study the writings of Boehme.

I am interested mostly because Boehme is an ancestor.