1756 JOHANN ARNDT - LUTHERAN MYSTIC - PARADIES-GARTLEIN / GARDEN OF PARADISE

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1756 JOHANN ARNDT - LUTHERAN MYSTIC - PARADIES-GARTLEIN / GARDEN OF PARADISE:
$75.00

PARADIES-GARTLEIN (GARDEN OF PARADISE), by JOHANN ARNDT.
Published by Heinrich Ludwig Bronner, Franckfurt am Mayn (Germany), 1756. TEXT IN GERMAN.
Leather bound boards, four raised spine bands, 3” x 6.5”.
Pagination: [1 leaf] front free endpaper, [1 leaf] frontispiece, [1] title-page, [39] Introductory pages: “Zuschrift”, etc., 1-344, [20] Register, 1-281, [6] Register. “ENDE” written at the bottom of each of the Registers.
Condition: The covers are very worn, peeling for an inch at both spine ends, gnawed at the upper front corner of the front cover and at the same corner of about 1/3 of the inner pages (not affecting text); they are also rubbed and worn through at various places; nonetheless the leather covered covers remain attractive in a Harry Potter Hogwarts’ Library sort of way. Internally, the front and rear hinges are split but holding well, there is an old, small bookplate of “C.C. Spellenberg” on the front free endpaper, the bottom margin of the front pastedown and free-endpaper has some insect damage, the endpapers and first and last few pages have some staining from the leather covers, some closed tears, and soiling, THE FRONTISPIECE APPEARS TO ORIGINALLY HAVE BEEN A FOLD-OPEN FRONTISPIECE, BUT IS LACKING THE FOLD-OPEN HALF, nonetheless, the half that remains is quite lovely and mystic with the image of the “all seeing eye”, the title page is split at its top 3”, there are some worm-lines but not too many and only on a scattering of pages; the pages have somewhat darkened, have some soiling, spots, creases, edge-wear here and there, but overall the inner pages remain complete, well-bound, bright, clear and fully legible.
A complete copy of this important 258 year-old book.About JOHANN ARNDT (from Wikipedia)
******Johann Arndt (or Arnd; 27 December 1555 – 11 May 1621) was a German Lutheran Theologian and Mystic who wrote several influential books of devotional Christianity. Although reflective of the period of Lutheran Orthodoxy, he is seen as a forerunner of Pietism, a movement within Lutheranism that gained strength in the late 17th century.After some time his Lutheran tendencies aroused the anger of the authorities, who were of the Reformed Church. Consequently, in 1590 he was deposed for refusing to remove the pictures from his church and discontinue the use of exorcism at baptism. He found an asylum in Quedlinburg (1590). However, he was very unpopular with the townspeople, and for that reason was transferred to St Martin\'s church at Brunswick in 1599. He later worked in Eisleben, and from 1611 until his death in 1621 he was general superintendent in Celle.Arndt\'s fame rests on his writings. These were mainly of a Mystical and Devotional kind, and were inspired by St Bernard, Johannes Tauler and Thomas à Kempis. Arndt dwells upon the mystical union between the believer and Christ, and endeavors, by drawing attention to Christ\'s life in His people, to correct the purely forensic side of the reformation theology, which paid almost exclusive attention to Christ\'s death for His people.After WAHRES CHRISTENTUM, Arndt\'s best-known work IS PARADIESGÄRTLEIN, which was first published in 1612. Both these books have been translated into English: Paradiesgärtlein with the title the Garden of Paradise, and Wahres Christentum as True Christianity.Arndt has always been held in very high repute by the German Pietists. The founder of Pietism, Philipp Jakob Spener, repeatedly called attention to him and his writings, and even went so far as to compare him with Plato.******
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