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Johann Heinrich Alsted 1588-1638

Between Renaissance, Reformation and Universal Reform

  • Hardback
  • 286 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

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Johann Heinrich Alsted, professor of philosophy and theology at the Calvinist academy of Heborn, was a man of many parts. A deputy to the famous Synod of Dort and greatest encyclopaedist of his age, he was also a pioneer of Calvinist millenarianism and a devoted student of astrology, alchemy, Lullism, and the works of Giordano Bruno. From the mainstream Reformed tradition, Alsted and his circle inherited the zeal for further reformation of church, state, and society; but with this they blended hermetic dreams of a general reformation and the restoration of primordial perfection to the fallen human nature through Lullist and alchemical panaceas. However paradoxical from a strictly Calvinist standpoint, this loose synthesis helped prepare the programme of Alsted's greatest student, Jan Amos Cominius, and the following generation of central European universal reformers. Alsted's intellectual biography opens up unexpected perspectives on the reforming movements of the seventeenth century, and provides an invaluable introduction to many of the central ideas, individuals and institutions of this neglected era of central European intellectual history.
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  • Author

    Howard Hotson (lecturer In The Department Of History, Lecturer In The Department Of History, University Of Aberdeen)

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    March 2000

  • Weight

    582g

  • Page Count

    286

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780198208280

  • ISBN-10

    0198208286

  • Eden Code

    1147136

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