Definition of Behmenism

1. Noun. The mystical theological doctrine of Jakob Boehme that influenced the Quakers.

Exact synonyms: Boehmenism
Generic synonyms: Theological Doctrine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Behmenism

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Begonia erythrophylla
Begonia feastii
Begonia heracleifolia
Begonia rex
Begonia semperflorens
Begonia socotrana
Begonia tuberhybrida
Begoniaceae
Beguez Cesar disease
Begum
Behcet
Behmen
Behmenism
Behr
Behr's disease
Behr's syndrome
Behrens
Behring
Behring's law
Behrouz
Beige Book
Beijing
Beijing dialect
Beijing opera
Beijinger
Beijingers

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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