Jane Lead and her Transnational Legacy 1st Edition Ariel Hessayon 1137396148 9781137396143

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• ISBN 10: 1137396148
• ISBN 13: 9781137396143
• Author: Ariel Hessayon

This book concerns one of early modern England’s most prolific female authors, Jane Lead (1624–1704).  Well-researched and clearly written, these essays focus on aspects of Lead’s thought including her attitudes towards Calvinism, mysticism, androgyny and the apocalypse, her role within the Philadelphian Society, and her transnational legacy – particularly in the German-speaking world and North America. This book suggests that Lead was far more radical than has been supposed. It argues that her religious journey had staging posts, namely an initial Calvinist obsession with sin and predestination wedded to a conventional Protestant understanding of the coming apocalypse, then the introduction of Jacob Boehme’s teachings and accompanying visions of a female personification of divine wisdom and finally, the adoption of the doctrine of the universal restoration of all humanity.  It locates Lead within a continuing tradition of puritan pastoral thought, showing how her personalised view of the millennium differed from most of her contemporaries and discussing her influence on Pietists and their conceptions of bodily transmutation. It also discusses strategies available to female authors and manuscript circulation as an alternative to print and examines her initial continental reception, particularly within Pietist and Spiritualist circles.  Lastly, it traces her afterlife through the relationship between the Philadelphians and the French Prophets, the interest in Lead among the followers of Joanna Southcott and her successors, and the appropriation of Lead’s prophecies by two twentieth century movements: Mary’s City of David and the Latter Rain movement.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Jane Lead’s Legacy in Perspective

2. Lead’s Life and Times (Part One): Before Widowhood

3. Lead’s Life and Times (Part Two): The Woman in the Wilderness

4. Lead’s Life and Times (Part Three): The Philadelphian Society

5. Jane Lead and the Tradition of Puritan Pastoral Theology

6. Jane Lead and English Apocalyptic Thought in the Late Seventeenth Century

7. The Restitution of ‘Adam’s Angelical and Paradisiacal Body’: Jane Lead’s Metaphor of Rebirth and Mystical Marriage

8. Mystical Divinity in the Manuscript Writings of Jane Lead and Anne Bathurst

9. ‘God’s Strange Providence’: Jane Lead in the Correspondence of Johann Georg Gichtel

10. Philadelphia Resurrected: Celebrating the Union Act (1707) from Irenic to Scatological Eschatology*

11. Jane Lead’s Prophetic Afterlife in the Nineteenth-Century English Atlantic

12. ‘A Prophecy Out of the Past’: Contrasting Treatments of Jane Lead Among Two North American T

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