Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Visionary Pansophism and the Narrativity of the Divine
1. Narrative Trajectory of the Self-Manifesting Divine
1.1. Boehme's Six-Stage Narrative
1.2. Narrative Teleology: Narrative Codes
1.3. Trinitarian Configuration of Ontotheological Narrative
2. Discursive Contexts of Boehme's Visionary Narrative
2.1. Alchemy as Discursive Context and its Sublation
2.2. Narrative Deconstitution of Negative Theology
Part II: Metalepsis Unbounding
3. Nondistinctive Swerves: Boehme's Recapitulation of Minority Pre-Reformation and Post-Reformation Traditions
4. Distinctive Swerves: Toward Metalepsis
4.1. Distinctive Individual Hermenutic and Theological Swerves
4.2. Narrative Swerve: Metalepsis
5. Boehme's Visionary Discourse and the Limits of Metalepsis
Part III: Valentinianism and Valentinian Enlisting of Non-Valentinian Narrative Discourses
6. Boehme's Discourse and Valentinian Narrative Grammar
6.1. Toward Geneology
7. Apocalyptic in Boehme's Discourse and its Valentinian Enlisting
7.1. Apocalyptic Inscription and Distention
8. Neoplatonism in Boehme's Discourse and its Valentinian Enlisting
8.1. Valentinian Enlisitng of Neoplatonic Narratives
9. Kabbalah in Boehme's Discourse and its Valentinian Enlisting
9.1. Valentinian Enlisting of the Kabbalah
Conclusion: Genealogical Preface
Notes
Index