History and Description of Mystical Theology

Name: Historia et descriptio theologiae mysticae, seu theosophiae arcanae et reconditae, itemque veterum & novorum mysticorum
Author: Arnold, Gottfried

Historia et descriptio theologiae mysticae, seu theosophiae arcanae et reconditae, itemque veterum & novorum mysticorum

Arnold, Gottfried

Latin

1702

739 pages

2 images

Mysticism Theology Hermetica German Speculative Mysticism Christian Mysticism Sub

First Translation

No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.

Extensive searches across multiple scholarly catalogs (including UNESCO, Open Library, Internet Archive, and OpenAlex) yielded no record of an English translation of Gottfried Arnold's 1702 treatise on mystical theology. While Arnold is a well-known figure in the study of Pietism, his specific works on mystical theology remain untranslated into English.

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German Speculative Mysticism Hermetica Mysticism Christian Theology

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Tired of dry, academic religion? Gottfried Arnold’s monumental work strips away the 'foul pit' of scholasticism to reveal the 'School of the Heart,' where true union with God is found through internal experience rather than intellectual argument.