LEADER 03644nam 2200577Ia 450 001 9910807428903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7914-8950-7 010 $a0-585-45030-7 035 $a(CKB)111087027854176 035 $a(OCoLC)811404072 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10587200 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000164011 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11170303 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000164011 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10120736 035 $a(PQKB)11167856 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3408001 035 $a(OCoLC)52417943 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse5821 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3408001 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10587200 035 $a(OCoLC)847222234 035 $a(DE-B1597)683382 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791489505 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027854176 100 $a20010802d2002 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGnostic apocalypse $eJacob's Boehme's haunted narrative /$fCyril O'Regan 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (x, 300 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-7914-5201-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 225-276) and index. 327 $apt. 1. Visionary Pansophism and the Narrativity of the Divine Ch. 1. Narrative Trajectory of the Self-Manifesting Divine Ch. 2. Discursive Contexts of Boehme's Visionary Narrative pt. 2. Metalepsis Unbounding Ch. 3. Nondistinctive Swerves: Boehme's Recapitulation of Minority Pre-Reformation and Post-Reformation Traditions Ch. 4. Distinctive Swerves: Toward Metalepsis Ch. 5. Boehme's Visionary Discourse and the Units of Metalepsis pt. 3. Valentinianism and Valentinian Enlisting of Non-Valentinian Narrative Discourses Ch. 6. Boehme's Discourse and Valentinian Narrative Grammar Ch. 7. Apocalyptic in Boehme's Discourse and its Valentinian Enlisting Ch. 8. Neoplatonism in Boehme's Discourse and its Valentinia n EnlistingCh. 9. Kabbalah in Boehme's Discourse and its Valentinia n EnlistingConclusion: Genealogical Preface 330 $a"Jacob Boehme, the seventeenth century German speculative mystic, influenced the philosophers Hegel and Schelling and both English and German Romantics alike with his visionary thought. Gnostic Apocalypse focuses on the way Boehme's thought repeats and surpasses post-reformation Lutheran thinking, deploys and subverts the commitments of medieval mysticism, realizes the speculative thrust of Renaissance alchemy, is open to esoteric discourses such as the Kabbalah, and articulates a dynamic metaphysics. This book critically assesses the striking claim made in the nineteenth century that Boehme's visionary discourse represents within the confines of specifically Protestant thought nothing less than the return of ancient Gnosis. Although the grounds adduced on behalf of the "Gnostic return" claim in the nineteenth century are dismissed as questionable, O'Regan shows that the fundamental intuition is correct. Boehme's visionary discourse does represent a return of Gnosticism in the modern period, and in this lies its fundamental claim to our contemporary philosophical, theological, and literary attention."--BOOK JACKET 606 $aMysticism 615 0$aMysticism. 676 $a230/.044/092 700 $aO'Regan$b Cyril$f1952-$01695140 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807428903321 996 $aGnostic apocalypse$94074170 997 $aUNINA