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The Way to Christ

The Way to Christ

Jakob Böhme (1575–1624) was a German Lutheran shoemaker of Görlitz whose visions launched a prolific career of mystical writing. His first book, Aurora, scandalized his pastor and was banned for years, yet his works spread across Europe and influenced Pietism and later philosophy. Our library holds The Way to Christ and his Dialogues on the Supersensual Life, among his more devotional writings on repentance, prayer, and new birth in Christ.

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First published
1622
Category
Devotional
Length
39k words · about 3 hours
Chapters
28

About this book

A collection of short treatises by the German shoemaker and lay theologian Jakob Boehme, first published in 1622. Boehme writes on true repentance, heartfelt prayer, and the new birth, calling readers away from outward profession to an inward, living union with Christ. Written in vivid, sometimes difficult language, it became the most widely read of his works.

Contents

  1. Of True Repentance
  2. THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE READER
  3. OF TRUE REPENTENCE
  4. The Process of Repentance; or WAY to Conversion 🔒
  5. The Process, or WAY 🔒
  6. The Prayer 🔒
  7. SHORT PRAYERS 🔒
  8. The Gates of the Paradisical Garden of Roses 🔒
  9. To The READER 🔒
  10. A MORNING PRAYER 🔒
  11. AN EVENING PRAYER 🔒
  12. Of Regeneration, or The New Birth Shewing 🔒
  13. THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE READER 🔒
  14. THE FIRST CHAPTER 🔒
  15. THE SECOND CHAPTER 🔒
  16. THE THIRD CHAPTER 🔒
  17. THE FOURTH CHAPTER 🔒
  18. THE FIFTH CHAPTER 🔒
  19. THE SIXTH CHAPTER 🔒
  20. THE SEVENTH CHAPTER 🔒
  21. THE EIGHTH CHAPTER 🔒
  22. Of True Resignation Or Dying to SELF 🔒
  23. THE FIRST CHAPTER 🔒
  24. THE SECOND CHAPTER 🔒
  25. THE THIRD CHAPTER 🔒
  26. The SUPER SENSUAL LIFE 🔒
  27. THE FIRST DIALOGUE 🔒
  28. THE SECOND DIALOGUE 🔒

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