Paradise Postponed

Johann Heinrich Alsted and the Birth of Calvinist Millenarianism

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H. Hotson

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International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales D'histoire Des Idees

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This text provides a detailed case study of the origins of millenarianism within the vast opera of one of its earliest and most influential Calvinist exponents: the Herborn encyclopaedist Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588-1638). The young Alsted, it emerges, looked forward not to the millennium of Apocalypse 20 but to a brief, final period of enhanced illumination described in a poorly understood central European tradition of astrological, alchemical, spiritualist, and generally "occult" prophetic speculation. It was the disasters following the Bohemian Revolt of 1618 which forced Alsted to recast these expectations as the more exclusively scriptural expectation of a literal millennium; and the material for this revision was found in a protracted dispute over the millennium between senior theologians in Herborn and Heidelberg and a little-known work on the conversion of the Jews by one of the figures most probably behind the composition of the Rosicrucian manifestos. Based on study of the full range of Alsted's works, his diverse sources, and widely dispersed manuscript material, the result is this work on 17th-century continental millenarianism exclusively devoted to the origins of the doctrine within mainstream Protestantism.

Release date NZ

January 31st, 2001

Author

H. Hotson

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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X, 230 p.

Pages

230

Series

International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales D'histoire Des Idees

Dimensions

156x234x14

ISBN-13

9780792367871

Product ID

2051865

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