Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture

by Laursen, John Christian

• ISBN13: 9780792368472
• ISBN10: 0792368479
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This is the first book to bring together studies of a wide variety of millenarians who were active in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in France, The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and eastern Europe. The sheer variety of millenarian ideas and movements and their myriad of ebbs and flows and interactions teach us that millenarianism was a much more complex and influential factor than most studies have recognized. It was part and parcel of the growth of science, the progress of philosophy, and the genesis of political reform. This volume provides much food for thought for students and teachers of early modern ideas, the history of philosophy and religion, and the making of the modern world. Researchers in these fields will find that it opens up many avenues for further work.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Millenarianism and Messianism Series	vii
Richard H. Popkin
Introduction	xv
John Christian Laursen
Richard H. Popkin
The Rosicrucians and the Great Conjunctions	1	(8)
Susanna Akerman
Arianism and Millenarianism: The Link Between Two Heresies from Servetus to Socinus	9	(28)
Howard Hotson
Mystical Millenarianism in the Early Modern Dutch Republic	37	(12)
Ernestine van der Wall
Dutch Millenarianism and the Role of Reason: Daniel de Breen and Joachim Oudaan	49	(8)
Andrew Fix
Who was the Author of the Clavis apocalyptica of 1651? Millenarianism and Prophecy between Silesian Mysticism and the Hartlib Circle	57	(20)
Martin Mulsow
Millenarianism and Nationalism - A Case Study: Isaac La Peyrere	77	(8)
Richard H. Popkin
Pierre Jurieu: The Politics of Prophecy	85	(10)
Harry M. Bracken
Bayle's Anti-Millenarianism: The Dangers of Those who Claim to Know the Future	95	(12)
John Christian Laursen
Pietism, Millenarianism, and the Family Future: The Journal of Beate Hahn-Paulus (1778-1842)	107	(16)
Ulrike Margeritha Gleixner
Index	123