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Authors: Cyril O'Regan
ISBN-13: 9780791452028, ISBN-10: 0791452026
Format: Paperback
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: December 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Argues that the discourse of Jacob Boehme represents the return of Gnostic thought in modernity after a thousand year hiatus.
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. 1 | Visionary Pansophism and the Narrativity of the Divine | 27 |
Ch. 1 | Narrative Trajectory of the Self-Manifesting Divine | 31 |
Ch. 2 | Discursive Contexts of Boehme's Visionary Narrative | 57 |
Pt. 2 | Metalepsis Unbounding | 83 |
Ch. 3 | Nondistinctive Swerves: Boehme's Recapitulation of Minority Pre-Reformation and Post-Reformation Traditions | 87 |
Ch. 4 | Distinctive Swerves: Toward Metalepsis | 103 |
Ch. 5 | Boehme's Visionary Discourse and the Units of Metalepsis | 129 |
Pt. 3 | Valentinianism and Valentinian Enlisting of Non-Valentinian Narrative Discourses | 141 |
Ch. 6 | Boehme's Discourse and Valentinian Narrative Grammar | 147 |
Ch. 7 | Apocalyptic in Boehme's Discourse and its Valentinian Enlisting | 161 |
Ch. 8 | Neoplatonism in Boehme's Discourse and its Valentinian Enlisting | 177 |
Ch. 9 | Kabbalah in Boehme's Discourse and its Valentinian Enlisting | 193 |
Conclusion: Genealogical Preface | 211 | |
Notes | 225 | |
Index | 277 |