Johann Heinrich Alsted 1588-1638: Between Renaissance, Re...
Hotson, Howard![Johann Heinrich Alsted 1588-1638: Between Renaissance, Reformation, and Universal Reform](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/226/22682524/CHSBZCOP0322682524.jpg)
Johann Heinrich Alsted, professor of philosophy and theology at the Calvinist academy of Herborn, was a man of many facets. A deputy to the famous Synod of Dort and the greatest encyclopaedist of his age, he was also a pioneer of Calvinist millenarianism and a devoted student of astrology, alchemy, Lullism, and the works of Giordano Bruno. This intellectual biography opens up unexpected perspectives on the central European Reformed tradition a...