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050 00 $aBV5095.B7$bO73 2002
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100 1 $aO'Regan, Cyril,$d1952-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93082583
245 10 $aGnostic apocalypse :$bJacob's Boehme's haunted narrative /$cCyril O'Regan.
260 $aAlbany :$bState University of New York Press,$c[2002], ©2002.
300 $ax, 300 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 225-276) and index.
505 00 $gPt. 1.$tVisionary Pansophism and the Narrativity of the Divine.$gCh. 1.$tNarrative Trajectory of the Self-Manifesting Divine.$gCh. 2.$tDiscursive Contexts of Boehme's Visionary Narrative --$gPt. 2.$tMetalepsis Unbounding.$gCh. 3.$tNondistinctive Swerves: Boehme's Recapitulation of Minority Pre-Reformation and Post-Reformation Traditions.$gCh. 4.$tDistinctive Swerves: Toward Metalepsis.$gCh. 5.$tBoehme's Visionary Discourse and the Units of Metalepsis --$gPt. 3.$tValentinianism and Valentinian Enlisting of Non-Valentinian Narrative Discourses.$gCh. 6.$tBoehme's Discourse and Valentinian Narrative Grammar.$gCh. 7.$tApocalyptic in Boehme's Discourse and its Valentinian Enlisting.$gCh. 8.$tNeoplatonism in Boehme's Discourse and its Valentinian Enlisting.$gCh. 9.$tKabbalah in Boehme's Discourse and its Valentinian Enlisting.$tConclusion: Genealogical Preface.
520 1 $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.
520 8 $aThis 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.
520 8 $aBoehme'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.
600 10 $aBöhme, Jakob,$d1575-1624.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095710
852 00 $boff,glx$hBV5095.B7$iO73 2002