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Intro; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: The Three Mirrors; The Mirror of Belief - Kirchen Spiegel; The Eschatology of Paracelsus and His Followers; Lutheran Syntheses; The Rosicrucian Brotherhood; Devotional Authors in search of Certainty; The Mirror of Nature - Natur Spiegel; The Mirror of Worldly Affairs - Welt Spiegel; Chapter 2: The School of the Holy Spirit; Paul Felgenhauer; Philipp Ziegler; Johann Kärcher; Jacob Böhme; Paul Kaym; Heinrich Gebhard alias Wesener; Some Minor Prophets; Scribal Publication and Manuscript Collectors
The Reach of Printed BooksConclusion; Chapter 3: Two Prophetic Voices; The Prophet of Torgau; Crisis and Transcendence; The Universal Instrument; The Role of Hope; A Prophet Between Utopia and New Jerusalem; The Seven Laws of the Holy United Roman Empire; The Reception of Neuheuser's Works; Conclusion; Chapter 4: Optimism Outlawed; The Doctrinal Position; Paths to a Heresy; The Creation of a Heresy; A Confusion of Heretics; The Changing Status of Lutheran Devotional Literature; Reaping the Whirlwind; Chapter 5: Heretics in the Pulpit; The Rahtmann Dispute; Rahtmann's Gnadenreich
Rahtmann's "Chiliasm"The Opinions of the Theological Faculties; The Pastor of Nuremberg; Nicolaus Hartprecht; Tuba Temporis; Joachim Cussovius and the Reception of Hartprecht's Tuba Temporis; The Messianic Turn; Conclusion; Chapter 6: A Lutheran Millennium; Paul Egard; Posaune der Göttlichen Gnade und Liechtes (1623); An Unanticipated Millennium; Some Sources of Egard's Posaune; The Reception of Posaune; Egard's Apocalypticism After 1623; Conclusion; Chapter 7: Failed Prophecies; Failed Prophecy, Failed Prophets; Chapter 8: Conclusions; Appendix
Printed Works Concerning Optimistic Apocalyptic Expectations, 1600-1630Bibliography; Manuscripts; Braunschweig, Stadtarchiv; Copenhagen, Royal Library; Darmstadt, Landesbibliothek; Dessau, Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt; Dresden, Sächsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Dresden, Sächsische Landes- und Universitätsbibliothek; Erfurt, Bibliothek des evangelischen Ministeriums; Erfurt, Stadtarchiv; Görlitz, Bibliothek der Oberlausitzischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften; Görlitz, Stadtarchiv; Gotha, Forschungs- und Landesbibliothek; Halle, Archiv der Franckeschen Stiftungen; Halle, Universitätsbibliothek
Hamburg, Museum für Hamburgische GeschichteHamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek; Hannover, Niedersächsisches Hauptarchiv; Hannover, Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek; Harvard, University Library; Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek; Kassel, Landesbibliothek; Kew, The National Archives UK; Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek; Leipzig, Stadtarchiv; London, British Library; London, Parliamentary Archives; London, Wellcome Institute Historical Medical Library; Lübeck, Bibliothek der Hansestadt Lübeck; Marburg, Hessisches Staatsarchiv; Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
The Reach of Printed BooksConclusion; Chapter 3: Two Prophetic Voices; The Prophet of Torgau; Crisis and Transcendence; The Universal Instrument; The Role of Hope; A Prophet Between Utopia and New Jerusalem; The Seven Laws of the Holy United Roman Empire; The Reception of Neuheuser's Works; Conclusion; Chapter 4: Optimism Outlawed; The Doctrinal Position; Paths to a Heresy; The Creation of a Heresy; A Confusion of Heretics; The Changing Status of Lutheran Devotional Literature; Reaping the Whirlwind; Chapter 5: Heretics in the Pulpit; The Rahtmann Dispute; Rahtmann's Gnadenreich
Rahtmann's "Chiliasm"The Opinions of the Theological Faculties; The Pastor of Nuremberg; Nicolaus Hartprecht; Tuba Temporis; Joachim Cussovius and the Reception of Hartprecht's Tuba Temporis; The Messianic Turn; Conclusion; Chapter 6: A Lutheran Millennium; Paul Egard; Posaune der Göttlichen Gnade und Liechtes (1623); An Unanticipated Millennium; Some Sources of Egard's Posaune; The Reception of Posaune; Egard's Apocalypticism After 1623; Conclusion; Chapter 7: Failed Prophecies; Failed Prophecy, Failed Prophets; Chapter 8: Conclusions; Appendix
Printed Works Concerning Optimistic Apocalyptic Expectations, 1600-1630Bibliography; Manuscripts; Braunschweig, Stadtarchiv; Copenhagen, Royal Library; Darmstadt, Landesbibliothek; Dessau, Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt; Dresden, Sächsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Dresden, Sächsische Landes- und Universitätsbibliothek; Erfurt, Bibliothek des evangelischen Ministeriums; Erfurt, Stadtarchiv; Görlitz, Bibliothek der Oberlausitzischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften; Görlitz, Stadtarchiv; Gotha, Forschungs- und Landesbibliothek; Halle, Archiv der Franckeschen Stiftungen; Halle, Universitätsbibliothek
Hamburg, Museum für Hamburgische GeschichteHamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek; Hannover, Niedersächsisches Hauptarchiv; Hannover, Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek; Harvard, University Library; Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek; Kassel, Landesbibliothek; Kew, The National Archives UK; Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek; Leipzig, Stadtarchiv; London, British Library; London, Parliamentary Archives; London, Wellcome Institute Historical Medical Library; Lübeck, Bibliothek der Hansestadt Lübeck; Marburg, Hessisches Staatsarchiv; Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek