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1 online resource (xiv, 271 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford historical monographs |
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Oxford historical monographs.
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1. Education: Three Varieties of Further Reform, 1584-1610. i. Herborn: Ramism and Further Reform. ii. Heidelberg: Humanism, Scholasticism, and Further Reform. iii. Alsted's Earliest Writings. iv. Marburg: Hermeticism and Further Reform -- 2. Panacea Philosophica: The Young Alsted's Public Programme, 1610-20. i. Aims: The Instauration of the Image of God in Man. ii. Assumptions: A Humanist Anthropology. iii. Means: 'Alchemical Logic'. iv. Aspirations: The Search for a Panacea Philosophica -- 3. Crisis and Withdrawal: The Programme Undermined and Retracted, 1612-25. i. Philosophical Crisis: 'Rosicrucian Brethren', 1612-20. ii. Theological Crisis: The Synod of Dort, 1618-19. iii. Political Crisis: War and the Defence of Orthodoxy, 1619-33 |
| Summary |
"Johann Heinrich Alsted, professor of philosophy and theology at the Calvinist academy of Herborn, was a man of many parts. A deputy to the famous Synod of Dort and the greatest encyclopaedist of his age, he was also a pioneer of Calvinist millenarianism and a devoted student of astrology, alchemy, Lullism, and the works of Giordano Bruno." "From the mainstream Reformed tradition, Alsted and his circle inherited the zeal for further reformation of church, state, and society; but with this they blended hermetic dreams of a general reformation and of the restoration of primordial perfection to fallen human nature through Lullist and alchemical panaceas. However paradoxical from a strictly Calvinist standpoint, this loose synthesis helped prepare the programme of Alsted's greatest student, Jan Amos Comenius, and the following generation of central European universal reformers." "Alsted's intellectual biography provides an invaluable introduction to many of the central ideas, individuals, and institutions of a neglected era of central European intellectual history."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-252) and index |
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Alsted, Johann Heinrich, 1588-1638.
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Alsted, Johann Heinrich, 1588-1638 fast |
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Alsted, Johann Heinrich 1588-1638 gnd |
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Alsted, Johann Heinrich. swd |
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Theologians -- Germany -- Biography
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Philosophers -- Germany -- Biography
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Intellectuals -- Germany -- Biography
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Intellectual life
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Intellectuals
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Philosophers
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Theologians
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Geestesgeschiedenis.
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Europe, Central -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
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Central Europe
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Germany
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Electronic books
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Biographies
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191543128 |
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0191543128 |
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