Author: Jacob BehmenPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
A Compendious View of the Grounds of the Teutonic Philosophy. ...
Author: Jacob BehmenMilton and Jakob Boehme
Author: Margaret Lewis BaileyPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Milton and Jakob Boehme
Author: Margaret Lewis BaileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Experience of Defeat
Author: Christopher HillPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1784786705
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The Restoration, which re-established Charles II as king of England in 1660, marked the end of "God's cause"-a struggle for liberty and republican freedom. While most accounts of this period concentrate on the court, Christopher Hill focuses on those who mourned the passing of the most radical era in English history. The radical protestant clergy, as well as republican intellectuals and writers generally, had to explain why providence had forsaken the agents of God's work. In The Experience of Defeat, Christopher Hill explores the writings and lives of the Levellers, the Ranters and the Diggers, as well as the work of George Fox and other important early Quakers. Some of them were pursued by the new regime, forced into hiding or exile; others compelled to recant. In particular Hill examines John Milton's late work, arguing that it came directly out of a painful reassessment of man and society that impelled him to "justify the ways of God to Man."
A Compendious View of the Grounds of the Teutonick Philosophy
Author: Catalogue of the Reference Library of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Author: University of Exeter. Museum and LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Milton's Angels
Author: Joad RaymondPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199560501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Milton's Paradise Lost, the most eloquent, most intellectually daring, most learned, and most sublime poem in the English language, is a poem about angels. It is told by and of angels; it relies upon their conflicts, communications, and miscommunications. They are the creatures of Milton's narrative, through which he sets the Fall of humankind against a cosmic background. Milton's angels are real beings, and the stories he tells about them rely on his understanding of what they were and how they acted. While he was unique in the sublimity of his imaginative rendering of angels, he was not alone in writing about them. Several early-modern English poets wrote epics that explore the actions of and grounds of knowledge about angels. Angels were intimately linked to theories of representation, and theology could be a creative force. Natural philosophers and theologians too found it interesting or necessary to explore angel doctrine. Angels did not disappear in Reformation theology: though centuries of Catholic traditions were stripped away, Protestants used them in inventive ways, adapting tradition to new doctrines and to shifting perceptions of the world. Angels continued to inhabit all kinds of writing, and shape the experience and understanding of the world. Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative.
British Librarian
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Converse in the Spirit
Author: Kevin FischerPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838640067
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Underlining the importance to both of a living creative and spiritual tradition, Converse in the Spirit argues that the relationship between Blake and Boehme was a meeting of like minds that transcended place and time, that each regarded himself as part of a community of vision and aspiration, and believed that any predominant form of thought and understanding was only partial. Through this, Boehme is used to illuminate the more esoteric aspects of Blake, and Blake those of Boehme. Their writings are not a simple or direct description on the movements of divinity, nor of what divinity is or is not, but a medium for approaching it, and for participating in the creation of the sacred, the giving of personal, individual form to the divine.
British Librarian, Or Book-collectors Guide to the Formation of a Library in All Branches of Literature (etc.)
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description