Johann Wilhelm and Johanna Eleonora Petersen's eschatology in context / / Elisa Bellucci.

• Superior document: Beiträge zur europäischen Religionsgeschichte ; Volume 9
• VerfasserIn: Bellucci, Elisa,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Beiträge zur europäischen Religionsgeschichte ; Volume 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (299 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• A Prelude
• Introduction
• Johanna Eleonora and Johann Wilhelm Petersen: a biographical sketch
• The Petersens in the panorama of scholarship
• Perspectives and limits of the present work
• 1. Eschatological expectations according to Johann Wilhelm and Johanna Eleonora Petersen
• 1.1 The millenarian expectation
• 1.1.1 Rise of the eschatological controversy
• 1.1.2 The millenarian expectation
• 1.2 From Christ's Kingdom to universal salvation: The Petersens' apokatastasis doctrine
• 1.2.1 The Philadelphian Society and the discovery of universal redemption
• 1.2.2 The apokatastasis doctrine in the Petersens' initial works
• 2. Johann Wilhelm and Johanna Eleonora Petersen's eschatology in context
• 2.1 Eschatology, irenicism and progress
• 2.1.1 The irenic concern behind the Petersens' eschatology
• 2.1.2 Irenic endeavors in Brandenburg-Prussia
• 2.1.3 The wait for the end of the times in Protestant territories
• 2.1.4 The Petersens' eschatological view in context
• 2.1.5 "Animos movendos spe meliorum". Leibniz on the Petersens' eschatology
• 2.2 Hermeneutical principles behind the Petersens' eschatology
• 2.2.1 The Petersens' eschatology and Confessio Augustana 17
• 2.2.2 Godly revelations
• 2.2.3 The role of the Scripture
• 2.2.4 The role of the Holy Spirit
• 3. The sources of eschatology
• 3.1 Sources of the millenarian expectation
• 3.1.1 The witnesses of chiliasm in Nubes Testium Veritatis
• 3.1.2 The influences of Spener and of the Frankfurt environment
• 3.2 The sources of the apokatastasis doctrine
• 3.2.1 Jane Lead and the Philadelphian Society
• 3.2.2 Patristic testimonies
• 3.2.3 The Kabbalistic tradition
• 3.2.4 The sources of the middle condition of the soul
• 3.2.5 Luther.
• 3.2.6 The conceptual framework behind the Petersens' use of different sources
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Primary sources (a selection, including modern editions)
• Literature
• Index.