Isbn: 9789004250222 - reformation, revolution, renovation: the roots and reception of the rosicrucian call for general reform (universal reform, band 3) (5 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorLyke de Vries (Radboud University, Nijmegen) is a researcher in the history of early modern philosophy and scientia. She has published on early modern notions of change and reformers of religion and scientia.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - At the centre of the Rosicrucian manifestos was a call for 'general reformation'. In Reformation, Revolution, Renovation, the first book-length study of this topic, Lyke de Vries demonstrates the unique position of the Rosicrucian call for reform in the transformative context of the early seventeenth century. The manifestos, commonly interpreted as either Lutheran or esoteric, are here portrayed as revolutionary mission statements which broke dramatically with Luther's reform ideals. Their call for reform instead resembles a variety of late medieval and early modern dissenting traditions as well as the heterodox movement of Paracelsianism. Emphasising the universal character of the Rosicrucian proposal for change, this new genealogy of the core idea sheds fresh light on the vexed question of the manifestos' authorship and helps explain their tumultuous reception by both those who welcomed and those who deplored them.…