Spiritual Reformers in the 16th and 17th Centuries

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Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2005 M07 1 - 414 pages
What is Spiritual Religion; The Main Current of the Reformation; Hans Denck and the Inward Word; Two Prophets of the Inward Word: Bunderlin and Entfelder; Sebastian Franck: An Apostle of Inward Religion; Caspar Schwenckfeld and the Reformation of the Middle Way; Sebastian Castellio: A Forgotten Prophet; Coornhert and the Collegiants; Valentine Weigel and Nature Mysticism; Jacob Boehme: His Life and Spirit; Boehme's Universe, His Way of Salvation and His Influence in England; Early English Interpreters of Spiritual Religion, John Everard, Giles Randall and others; John Smith, Patonist; Thomas Traheren and the Spiritual Poets of the Seventeenth Century.
 

Contents

INTRODUCTION
xi
CHAPTER II
17
CHAPTER III
31
CHAPTER IV
46
CHAPTER V
64
CHAPTER VI
88
CHAPTER VIII
133
CHAPTER IX
151
CHAPTER XII
208
CHAPTER XIII
235
CHAPTER XIV
266
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE THE FIRST OF THE LATITUDEMEN
288
CHAPTER XVI
305
THOMAS TRAHERNE AND THE SPIRITUAL Pomrs OF
320
CHAPTER XVIII
336
I
355

CHAPTER X
172
CHAPTER XI
190

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Rufus M. Jones (1863-1948) was a Quaker historian, theologian, and Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College. He was a prolific writer, including such works as A Dynamic Faith, Studies in Mystical Religion, and Practical Christianity.

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