Sunrise to Eternity: A Study in Jacob Boehme's Life and Thought

by John Joseph Stoudt, Paul Tillich (Contribution by)

Overview

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781512820737
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	01/29/1957
Series:	Anniversary Collection
Edition description:	Reprint 2016
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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From the Preface:

Although Boehme's thoughts have changed during his writings from a stage of crudity to a stage of comparative clarity, they are always expressed in a language which mirrors speculative vision, mystical experience, psychological insight, and alchemist traditions. It is often difficult to uncover the rational element in this mixture, but it is there and it had an astonishing influence on the history of Western philosophy. One need only mention Schelling's famous book on human freedom which is thoroughly dependent on Boehme's vision of the genesis of God, world, and man. From here, Boehme's indirect influence reaches Hegel and Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Hartmann, Bergson and Heidegger.