Talk:Christian theosophy

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DO NOT Archive this section Check out http://www.iep.utm.edu/submit/100-most/ this is a Philosophy subject. Please do not edit the banner to remove these from Philosophy. JEMead (talk) 17:24, 29 December 2011 (UTC) This article has a lot more expansion to come. I set it to Start, not C. JEMead (talk) 21:43, 1 January 2012 (UTC) I expanded items and decided that a C might be ok here now.[reply]

Start talk page JEMead (talk) 08:57, 9 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Citation needed since 2 years, moved to talk:

German philosophers produced major works of Christian theosophy during this period: Theophilosophia theoritica et practica. (1710) by Samuel Richter [de] (pseudo. Sincerus Renatus) and Opus magocabalsticum et theosophicum. (1721) by Georg von Welling (pseudo. Salwigt, 1655-1727).^{[citation needed]} Other notable theosophers of the period include Johann George Gichtel (1638–1710), Gottfried Arnold (1666–1714), Friedrich Christoph Oetinger (1702–1782), William Law (1686–1761), and Dionysius Andreas Freher (1649–1728) ^{[citation needed]}.

In France, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (1743–1803) and Jean-Philippe Dutoit-Membrini (alias Keleph Ben Nathan, 1721-1793) contributed to a resurgence of theosophy in the late 18th century.^{[citation needed]} Other theosophical thinkers of this period include Karl von Eckartshausen (1752–1803), Johann Heinrich Jung (1740–1817), Frédéric-Rodolphe Saltzmann [fr] (1749–1821), Johann Michael Hahn (1758–1819), and Franz von Baader (1765–1841). ^{[citation needed]}.

By the 16th century the word theosophy was being used in at least one of its current meanings.^[1]^{[by whom?]}.

theosophy flourished in the works of Aegidius Gutmann [de] (1490–1584), Valentin Weigel (1533–1588), Heinrich Khunrath (1560–1605), Johann Arndt (1555–1621), and Kaspar Schwenckfeld [de] (1490–1584).^{[citation needed]}

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^ Faivre 1987

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I have fixed the subpage links at the top, but they are still shown as redlinks. Someone should move all of the subpages of "Talk:Theosophy (disambiguation)" to the corresponding subpages of "Talk:Theosophy (Boehmian)" without leaving redirects behind to fix the redlinks. Those subpages were recently moved to the wrong subpage titles by CAPTAIN MEDUSA. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 01:30, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

GeoffreyT2000, referring to this Talk:Theosophy (disambiguation)/Archive 1? ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 01:33, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 01:56, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 9 November 2019

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved. (non-admin closure) Cwmhiraeth (talk) 14:11, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Theosophy (Boehmian) → Christian theosophy – Move was the original name of this article, and we should revert to that. It is also the primary term used in reliable sources. Faivre is the greatest authority on this topic area, and he uses by a large margin the term Christian theosophy. When he (rarely) uses the term Boehmenist Theosophy, he talks about Jacob Boehme, not about Christian theosophy in general. Same with other scholars like Versluis. It was the original name of this article for many years (actually since the beginning of Wikipedia). It seems it was moved without discussion. Riley0O0O0O (talk) 10:59, 9 November 2019 (UTC)—Relisting. Colin M (talk) 22:39, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. SnowFire (talk) 04:14, 11 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I'm not sure "Christian theosophy" is the correct title - due to the influence of esotericism, such as Kabbalah and Paracelsus, can we say that theosophy is purely Christian? It's more an amalgam blended with mysticism - perhaps a better title would be something like "Early theosophy" or "Traditional theosophy" or "Historical theosophy" - those probably aren't good titles, but something to distinguish the original tradition from the later Theosophical Society - Epinoia (talk) 04:30, 11 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Christian theosophy is the most established term for this topic area and more encompassing than the current title. Other uses of the term can be explained within the Christian theosophy or related articles. If the material is notable and large enough one could additionally also recreate the Theosophy_(history_of_philosophy) article. --Riley0O0O0O (talk) 03:22, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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[Faivre_1987-1] Faivre 1987

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