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24 April 1575 A.D. Birth: Jacob Boehme (1575-1624)—German mystic and Lutheran theologian Graves, Dan. “Jacob Boehme’s Influence Begins.” Christianity.com. May 2007. http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1501-1600/jacob-boehmes-influence-begins-11630024.html . Accessed 23 Apr 2015. Imagine an untrained thinker who nevertheless had a major influence on a host of notable philosophers and religious leaders. Jacob Boehme was such a man. A shoemaker without college or university credentials, he wrote twenty-nine books and tracts which set a lot of minds turning. Among them were thinkers, Pietists, and mystics not only of his own age, but down to our own day. Henri Bergson's metaphysics, George Fox's Quakerism, Hegel's dialectical theory, and Heidegger's existentialism each owe something to Boehme. Even mad Nietzsche and gloomy Schopenhauer borrowed ideas from him. So did the liberal theologian Paul Tillich. We aren't 100% sure, but the...

24 April 1575 A.D. Birth: Jacob Boehme (1575-1624)—German mystic and Lutheran theologian http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/birthdays/04-24.html Jacob Boehme (1575 to 1624) Lutheran Semi-Orthodox Mystic Had Great Influence. Jacob Boehme was born at Altseidenberg, near Goerlitz, Germany. This influential German mystic was a Lutheran theologian, thinker, and writer. Converted at 25, he began serious study, and entered his experiences in writing, which had a tremendous influence in the thinking of Lutherans and non-Lutherans alike. Despite much opposition (his work was not always orthodox), he produced The Aurora (1612); The Three Principles (1619); The Forty Questions of the Soul (1620); The Incarnation of The Son of God (1621), and, most widely read, and still in print, The Way to Christ (1623). For these writings, he had to answer before the church council.