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Definition of Behmenism
1. Noun. The mystical theological doctrine of Jakob Boehme that influenced the Quakers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Behmenism
Literary usage of Behmenism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition by William Law, Charles Bigg (1899)
"Fox went boldly on to the logical consequence of Behmenism, and rejected all ...
Behmenism supplied a fruitful idea to Newton, and it made Law a better, ..."
2. William Law, Nonjuror and Mystic: ... a Sketch of His Life, Character, and by John Henry Overton (1881)
"He procured and studied the MSS. of the learned Dr. Francis Lee, and other
Philadelphians, who were tinged with Behmenism. He purposed publishing a new ..."
3. William Law, Nonjuror and Mystic ...: Author of A Serious Call to a Devout by John Henry Overton (1881)
"... years a diligent student and ardent admirer of Behmenism, for which he had
been previously prepared by a long course of study of the mystic writers, ..."
4. Milton and Jakob Boehme: A Study of German Mysticism in Seventeenth-century by Margaret Lewis Bailey (1914)
"... seems to have been " skillful but eccentric and superstitious in his profession,
and pious in a mystical way more akin to Behmenism than to the Quakers. ..."
5. Confessions of an English Opium-eater ; And, Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas De Quincey (1851)
"I shall be charged with mysticism, Behmenism, quietism, &c., but that shall not
alarm me. Sir H. Vane, the younger, was one of our wisest men ; and let my ..."
6. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"Mr. Meekly and Mr. Fenton (or Clinton) are Brooke's two exponents of a very
general and diluted form of " Behmenism." The existence of the two wills, ..."
7. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... mysticism, Behmenism, and the like decisive outcries, contents us as if there
were something of sense, wit, or demonstration in it. ..."
8. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"I and my neighbors have been bred in the notion, that, unless we came soon to
some good church,— Calvinism, or Behmenism, or Romanism, or Mormonism,— there ..."
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