Valentin Weigel (7 August 1533 to 10 June 1588) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and mystical writer from Saxony, and an important forerunner of later theosophy. Born at Hayn near Dresden into a Catholic family, he studied at Meissen, Leipzig and Wittenberg and from 1567 served quietly as pastor at Zschopau. He kept his unorthodox ideas to a circle of friends and left about six thousand pages of printed and manuscript work, much of it published only after his death. His mysticism drew on Johannes Tauler, Paracelsus, Sebastian Franck and Caspar Schwenckfeld, and he urged an inner, spiritual church in which one could know Christ without books or scripture. Johann Arndt, Gottfried Arnold and Leibniz helped spread his teachings, known as Weigelianism.
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Valentin Weigel (or Weichel; 7 August 1533 – 10 June 1588) was a German theologian, pastor, philosopher and mystical writer, from Saxony, and an important precursor of later theosophy.
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Valentin Weigel (or Weichel; 7 August 1533 – 10 June 1588) was a German theologian, pastor, philosopher and mystical writer, from Saxony, and an important precursor of later theosophy.
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Pastore protestante a Zschopau
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Valentin Weigel (or Weichel; 7 August 1533-10 June 1588) was a German theologian, pastor, philosopher and mystical writer, from Saxony, and an important precursor of later theosophy.
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Valentin Weigel (or Weichel; 7 August 1533-10 June 1588) was a German theologian, pastor, philosopher and mystical writer, from Saxony, and an important precursor of later theosophy.
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was a German theologian, pastor, philosopher and mystical writer, from Saxony
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He advocated a "spiritual church" in which one could know Christ without books or scripture.
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Valentin Weigel (or Weichel; 7 August 1533-10 June 1588) was a German theologian, pastor, philosopher and mystical writer, from Saxony, and an important precursor of later theosophy.
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Valentin Weigel (or Weichel; 7 August 1533-10 June 1588) was a German theologian, pastor, philosopher and mystical writer, from Saxony, and an important precursor of later theosophy.
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He advocated a "spiritual church" in which one could know Christ without books or scripture.
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His mysticism was marked by that of Johannes Tauler and by doctrines of Paracelsus
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He regularly prayed and read the Bible as well as works by visionaries such as Paracelsus, Weigel and Schwenckfeld
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