Johann Arndt
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Johann Arndt was a German Lutheran theologian and mystic who wrote several influential books of devotional Christianity. Although reflective of the period of Lutheran Orthodoxy, he is seen as a foreru
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17th-century exemplar of Paradiesgärtlein bound in gilded silver on wood. Rijksmuseum
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Jakob Böhme
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Jakob Böhme was a German philosopher, Christian mystic, and Lutheran Protestant theologian. He was considered an original thinker by many of his contemporaries within the Lutheran tradition, and his f
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…includes Jesper Swedberg and Peter Lorenz Sellergren. In 2022, Johann Ardt was officially added to the Episcopal Church liturgical calendar along with Jacob Boehme with a feast day on 11 May. Attribution…
Portrait by Christoph Gottlob Glymann
Joseph Mulder (Amsterdam 1686): Depiction of a possibly legendary episode in the life of Jakob Böhme. The Dutch caption reads: "Jakob Böhme with the preacher Gregor Richter in Görlitz, who was hostile to him in front of everyone, putting in a good word for a certain young baker from his followers. The gentleman became very angry about this, showed him the chamber door and threw one of his slippers at his head. But the good man meekly picked up the slipper, put it back on the foot of the angry preacher, and went on his way, wishing him every blessing."
Böhme's cosmogony: The Philosophical Sphere or the Wonder Eye of Eternity (1620).
Jakob Böhme's House in what was Görlitz but is now in a Polish town of Zgorzelec, where he lived from 1590 to 1610