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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)

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Author Biography: Cyril O'Regan

Book Synopsis

Argues that the discourse of Jacob Boehme represents the return of Gnostic thought in modernity after a thousand year hiatus.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction1
Pt. 1Visionary Pansophism and the Narrativity of the Divine27
Ch. 1Narrative Trajectory of the Self-Manifesting Divine31
Ch. 2Discursive Contexts of Boehme's Visionary Narrative57
Pt. 2Metalepsis Unbounding83
Ch. 3Nondistinctive Swerves: Boehme's Recapitulation of Minority Pre-Reformation and Post-Reformation Traditions87
Ch. 4Distinctive Swerves: Toward Metalepsis103
Ch. 5Boehme's Visionary Discourse and the Units of Metalepsis129
Pt. 3Valentinianism and Valentinian Enlisting of Non-Valentinian Narrative Discourses141
Ch. 6Boehme's Discourse and Valentinian Narrative Grammar147
Ch. 7Apocalyptic in Boehme's Discourse and its Valentinian Enlisting161
Ch. 8Neoplatonism in Boehme's Discourse and its Valentinian Enlisting177
Ch. 9Kabbalah in Boehme's Discourse and its Valentinian Enlisting193
Conclusion: Genealogical Preface211
Notes225
Index277

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