AuthorHotson, Howard. author
TitleParadise Postponed [electronic resource] : Johann Heinrich Alsted and the Birth of Calvinist Millenarianism / by Howard Hotson
ImprintDordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2000
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9494-3
Descript X, 230 p. online resource

CONTENT

1. Introduction -- One. Speculum mundi, sive harmonia trium voluminum: the hermetic pre-history of Alstedโs millenarianism, 1610โ24 -- 2. Volumen historicum seu experimentalis: encyclopedic chronology -- 3. Volumen coelestis sive astrologicum: astrological history -- 4. Volumen biblicus seu propheticus: prophetic numerology -- Two. Diatribe de mille annis apocalypticis: the origins of Alstedโs millenarianism, 1619โ27 -- 5. The Thirty Years War and Alstedโs eschatological crisis, 1619โ25 -- 6. The sources of the Diatribe de mille annis apocalypticis -- 7. Conclusions -- i. Johannes Piscator, โMeditatio de mille annis quorum fit mentio Apoc. 20 v. 2 quarum fit mentio apoc. 20. v. 2, et deinque nee non de resurrectione prima cujus fit mentio v. 5. et 6.โ, -- ii. Christoph Besold, โDe Hebraeorum ad Christum salvatorem nostrum conversione conjectaneaโ, -- Select Bibliography


SUBJECT

  1. History
  2. Religion
  3. Philosophy
  4. History
  5. History
  6. general
  7. Religious Studies
  8. general
  9. History of Philosophy