Johann Heinrich Alsted, 1588-1638 : between Renaissance, Reformation, and universal reform / Howard Hotson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hotson, Howard, author.

Series:

Oxford historical monographs.

Oxford historical monographs Johann Heinrich Alsted, 1588-1638

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alsted, Johann Heinrich, 1588-1638.

Alsted, Johann Heinrich.

Intellectual life.

Europe, Central--Intellectual life--17th century.

Europe, Central.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 271 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Alsted, professor of philosophy and theology at the Calvinist academy of Herborn, was a man of many parts. This intellectual biography opens up unexpected perspectives on the central European Reformed tradition as a whole.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Acknowledgements

Contents

Illustrations

Figures

Abbreviations

Introduction

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

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

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

iv. Personal Crisis: Alsted's Public Withdrawal into Scripture, 1623-5

Occult Sympathies: The Private World of the Mature Alsted, 1614 -38

i. Esoteric Teaching: A Private Pansophical Pupil, 1614-18

ii. Higher Learning: Theologia, Magia, Kabbala, and Alchymia, 1630-6

iii. Circular Reasoning: The Combinatorial Reconception of the Encyclopaedia, 1630-8

iv. Last Judgement: The Colophon de Reformatione Philosophiae, 1630-8

Apocalyptic Changes: The Origins of Alsted's Millenarianism, 1619 -27

i. The Hermetic Pre-history of Alsted's Millenarianism, 1614-20

ii. Political Origins: War and the Genesis of Heterodoxy, 1619-25

iii. Theological Origins: Herborn versus Heidelberg on the Millennium, 1613-27

iv. Philosophical Origins: The Hermetic Roots of Alsted's Millenarism, 1622-5

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Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-280-44566-1

0-19-154312-8

9786610445660

OCLC:

1027156265