Precisely the dimension of our heritage that most needs to be recovered...
I cannot imagine a more timely publishing venture.
Jacob Boehme, 1575-1624 Evelyn Underhill called the German Lutheran Mystic Jacob Boehme one of the most astonishing cases in history of a natu.
Nevertheless they are one nature just as fire and light are one nature.
Watson Professor Religion & Adjunct Professor of Philosophy Syracuse University Jacob Boehme: The Way to Christ translation, introduction and notes by Peter Erb, preface by Winifred Zeller For the source in light and the source in darkness is but a single source.
Huston Smith Thomas J. + Precisely the dimension of our heritage that most needs to be recovered...
I cannot imagine a more timely publishing venture.
It was intended to direct his fellow-believers back to the Spirit as he had been directed.
Boehme believed that his writing had come from the Spirit.
A collection of nine separate treatises, its parts were written late in his career and reflect his final theological position, a position established not aside from his earlier work, but on it...
The book was intended to serve as a meditation guide.
As the editor of this volume, Peter Erb, says, The Way to Christ provides the best introduction to his thought and spirituality.
A truly giant figure in the spiritual tradition, he has greatly influenced Angelus Silesius, William Blake, John Milton, Isaac Newton, William Law and many others.
He claimed that his writings reflect only what he was taught through the direct experience of God.
Boehme was the son of a farmer who lived the first part of his life as a shepherd and later became a shoemaker.
I am using the word not in the sense of heresies...but to indicate a wisdom grounded in revelation and employing myths and symbols rather than concepts-a wisdom much more contemplative than discursive.
Jacob Boehme, 1575-1624 Evelyn Underhill called the German Lutheran Mystic Jacob Boehme one of the most astonishing cases in history of a natural genius for the transcendent, Nicolas Beryaev described Boehme as Beyond a doubt...one of the greatest of Christian gnostics.
Nevertheless they are one nature just as fire and light are one nature.
Watson Professor Religion & Adjunct Professor of Philosophy Syracuse University Jacob Boehme: The Way to Christ translation, introduction and notes by Peter Erb, preface by Winifred Zeller For the source in light and the source in darkness is but a single source.
Huston Smith Thomas J.
Precisely the dimension of our heritage that most needs to be recovered...
I cannot imagine a more timely publishing venture
