Did the Pietists become esotericists when they read the works of Jacob Boehme?
Tomas Mansikka
As is commonly known, Jacob Boehme (1575–1624) is, and has been ever since his emergence, difficult to place in the history of thought. He has, for instance, characterized as ‘the most religious philosophers’. such could be seen on a borderline somewhere between philosophy theology. From reverse point view, however, he also termed speculative religiously minded, deeply thinker or mystic. His influence shown both fields; not only was play an important role within German during Romantic era, but also, Pietist movement, movement re­vival piety Lutheran church. Focusing initiated by Philipp Jakob Spener (1635–1705) late seventeenth century its spread Finnish ground, author this article shows that where Boehmian traceable, it reached quite different environments depending movement’s leaders followers. Also some light shed controversy orthodoxy Pietism early eighteenth Finland.
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