Jacob Boehme’s Songs of Enlightenment: Poetic Wisdom for the Spirit and Soul in Commemoration of the Four-Hundredth Jubilee of the Theologian’s “Now I Go Hence into Paradise” (November 17, 1624)
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Jacob Boehme's Songs of Enlightenment unfolds the mystical heart of God's wisdom and love, hidden away for four hundred years in Jacob Boehme's Aurora, The Signature of All Things, and all of his works. Come and eat illuminated waybread for your soul. Here, drink pure wine to refresh and enkindle your weary spirit. There is no longer any need for you to remain famished on dry scholarly articles and sterile secondary sources about Boehme. Rather, in these 126 poems, created directly from his own texts, is unfolded the very beating heart of Jesus Christ in the shoemaker of Gorlitz, the Theologian of Fire.
“In Jacob Boehme’s Songs of Enlightenment, author Jonathan Cloud provides an insightful overview of the spiritual reflections of seventeenth-century Christian mystic Jacob Boehme. Cloud provides a clear and concise introduction to Boehme’s thought and the nature of mystical experience in general. Boehme had an enormous influence in the history of Christian mysticism. As a result, Cloud’s book is a welcome addition to an area of research that has received limited attention by scholars of religion.”
— John C. Stephens, adjunct professor of religion, San Joaquin Delta College
“Like Gary Snyder’s dialogues with the Eastern spiritual master Dôgen, Johnathan Cloud’s poetry engages the theology and mysticism of the Lutheran Jacob Boehme. Among the rare contemporary Protestant authors recognizing the power of verse to support meditative practice, Cloud weaves natural portraits with biblical concepts and Boehme’s language into gentle and thoughtful explorations of the Christian life.”
—Susan P. Bratton, professor emerita of environmental science, Baylor University
- Title: Jacob Boehme’s Songs of Enlightenment: Poetic Wisdom for the Spirit and Soul in Commemoration of the Four-Hundredth Jubilee of the Theologian’s “Now I Go Hence into Paradise” (November 17, 1624)
- Author: Jonathan Cloud
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666785494, 9781666785487, 1666785482, 9781666785470, 1666785474, 1666785490
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666785494
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-10-10T21:19:29Z
Jonathan Cloud (Yeshe Rabgye) is a contemplative Christian teacher and preacher of the gospel, as well as Tibetan Buddhist Ngakpa—namely, ordained Dzogchen/tantra practitioner—and poet. Jonathan enlisted in the US Marines and is a Vietnam veteran. He, and his wife, Sophia, currently reside in Bellevue, Washington, across the Puget Sound from Seattle.