Bœhmenism
(ˈb{obar}ːmənɪz(ə)m)
Commonly Behmenism.
The doctrines taught by Jacob Bœhme, a German mystic and theosophist (1575–1624). So Bœhmenish, Bœhmenistic adjs.; Bœhmenist (also Bœhmist) n. and a., Bœhmenite.
| 1656 More Euthus. Tri. (1712) 49 Ranters and Quakers took their original from Behmenism and Familism. 1655 Baxter Quaker's Catech. Pref. C iij b, I could tell you of abundance of Popery that the Quakers and Behmenists maintain. 1731 Swift Let. 10 Sept. in Pope Wks. (1757) IX. 142 A very profound Behmist assures me, the style is poetic. 1739 John Wesley Jrnl. 23 Oct. (1938) II. 297, I read over Mr. Law's book on the New Birth..Behmenish, void, and vain! 1824 Coleridge Aids Refl. (ed. 2) 135 By any favouring the errors of the..Behmenists. 1846 Byron's Wks. 668 note, [founder of the sect called Behmenites]. 1854 Encycl. Brit. IV. 805/1 The sect of Boehmists. 1912 W. C. Braithwaite Beginnings of Quakerism ii. 38 We are reminded of the similar Familist and Boehmist teaching with respect to perfectionism. 1919 P. H. Osmond Myst. Poets Eng. Church viii. 258 The Behmenistic view is too much influenced by the thought of the caprice and passion associated with human anger. 1961 W. H. G. Armytage Heavens Below i. iv. 38 Law channelled Behmenist thought into the main current of English mysticism. |