Paradise Postponed Johann Heinrich Alsted and the Birth of Calvinist
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PARADISE POSTPONED Johann Heinrich Alsted and the Birth of Calvinist Millenarianism by HOWARD HOTSON
Founding Directors : P. Dibon t (Paris) and R.H. Popkin (Washington University , St. Loui s & UCLA) Director: Sarah Hutton (Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom) Associate Directors : J.E. Force (University of Kentucky, Lexington, U.S.A.) ; J.e. Laursen (University of California, Riverside, U.S.A.) Editorial Board: J.F. Battail (Paris) ; F. Duchesneau (Montreal); A. Gabbey (New York); T. Gregory (Rome); J.D. North (Groningen); M.J. Petry (Rotterdam); 1. Popkin (Lexington); G.A.J . Rogers (Keele); Th. Verbeek (Utrecht) Advisory Editorial Board: J. Aubin (Paris); B. Copenhaver (University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.) ; A. Crombie (Oxford); H. Gadamer (Heidelberg) ; H. Gouhier (Paris) ; K. Hanada (Hokkaido University); W. Kirsop (Melbourne) ; J. Malarczyk (Lublin); 1. Orcibal (Paris) ; W. Rod (Munchen): G. Rousseau (Los Angeles); J.P. Schobinger (Zurich); J. Tans (Groningen)
HOWARD HOTSON University ofAb erdeen,
u.K.
PARADISE POSTPONED Johann Heinrich and the Birth of Calvinist Millenarianism
Springer-Science+Business Media, B.Y.
A C.I.P. Catalogue record far this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-90-481-5641-2 ISBN 978-94-015-9494-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-015-9494-3
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Contents Figures Abbreviations Acknowledgements
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1. Introduction i. Mede, Alsted and the birth of Calvinist millenarianism ii. The development of Alsted's apocalyptic expectations, 1610-30 iii. Leading questions and key sources
Part One . Speculum mundi, sive harmonia trium voluminum: the hermetic pre-history of Alsted's millenarianism, 1610-24 2. Volumen historicum seu experimentalis: encyclopedic chronology
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3. Volumen coelestis sive astrologicum : astrological history
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i. Great conjunctions and new stars ii. The annu s magnus and circulus judiciorum Dei iii. The sphere of heaven, the wheel of history, and the circle of learning
4. Volumen biblicus seu propheticus: prophetic numerology
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i. The seals, trumpets and vials of Revelation ii. The prophetic numbers of Daniel
Part Two. Diatribe de mille annis apocalypticis: the origins of Alsted' s millenarianism, 1619-27 5. The Thirty Years War and Alsted's eschatological crisis, 1619-25
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i. 1619: rumours of war and initial doubts ii. 1621-5: disaster and disillusionment
6. The sources of the Diatribe de mille annis apocalypticis
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i. Herborn
