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Paradise Postponed

Johann Heinrich Alsted and the Birth of Calvinist Millenarianism [Hardback]

by H. Hotson

Author
H. Hotson
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Springer
Published
January 2001

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This text provides a detailed case study of the origins of millenarianism within the vast opera of one of its earliest and most influential Calvinist exponents: the Herborn encyclopaedist Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588-1638). The young Alsted, it emerges, looked forward not to the millennium of Apocalypse 20 but to a brief, final period of enhanced illumination described in a poorly understood central European tradition of astrological, alchemical, spiritualist, and generally "occult" prophetic speculation. It was the disasters following the Bohemian Revolt of 1618 which forced Alsted to recast these expectations as the more exclusively scriptural expectation of a literal millennium; and the material for this revision was found in a protracted dispute over the millennium between senior theologians in Herborn and Heidelberg and a little-known work on the conversion of the Jews by one of the figures most probably behind the composition of the Rosicrucian manifestos.Based on study of the full range of Alsted's works, his diverse sources, and widely dispersed manuscript material, the result is this work on 17th-century continental millenarianism exclusively devoted to the origins of the doctrine within mainstream Protestantism.