Dreaming of a New Jerusalem: Jane Lead's Visions of Wisdom

Jane Lead was a seventeenth-century prophetess, a mystic and visionary who became the religious leader of the Philadelphian Society in London at the end of the seventeenth century. She wrote at least 15 books and treatises, including a spiritual diary entitled A Fountain of Gardens which spans sixte...

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Main Author: Hirst, Julie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2006
In: Feminist theology
Year: 2006, Volume: 14, Issue: 3, Pages: 349-365
Further subjects:B New Jerusalem
B Jane Lead
B Prophetess
B Sophia
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:Jane Lead was a seventeenth-century prophetess, a mystic and visionary who became the religious leader of the Philadelphian Society in London at the end of the seventeenth century. She wrote at least 15 books and treatises, including a spiritual diary entitled A Fountain of Gardens which spans sixteen years and is nearly 2,500 pages long. Nearly all her works were translated into German and Dutch and published during her lifetime.
ISSN:1745-5189
Contains:Enthalten in: Feminist theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0966735006063774