Timothy Grieve-Carlson is Assistant Professor of Religion at Westminster College.

...scholars of American religion and history would find great value in reading this fantastic historical work.

• Introduction: "Strange Things Happening Every Day"Chapter One: "No Wisdom in Nature": Esotericism, Enthusiasm, and Ecology in Early Modern EuropeVita I: "Strange things of the Invisible worlds": Kelpius in Europe, 1667-1693Chapter Two: "Gone into the Ancient Forest": Hermetic Protestantism and Environmental Knowledge in Early PennsylvaniaVita II: "I cannot pass beyond to my homeland": Kelpius in Rotterdam, London, and the Atlantic, 1693-1694Chapter Three: "The Woman in the Wilderness": Kelpius and Company on the Ridge of the Wissahickon, 1694-1707Chapter Four: The Threefold Wilderness State: Ascetic Alchemy and the Technology of Self-NegationVita III: "Delay not longer the blessed day": Kelpius in Germantown, 1694-1703-4-5-6-7Chapter Five: The Long Shadow of the Enlightenment: Memories of Kelpius in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland (1798)Chapter Six: "Weird as a Wizard": History and Literature in the Emergence of the American Kelpius LegendConclusion: An Unmute Gospel

Timothy Grieve-Carlson is Assistant Professor of Religion at Westminster College.

...scholars of American religion and history would find great value in reading this fantastic historical work.

• Introduction: "Strange Things Happening Every Day"Chapter One: "No Wisdom in Nature": Esotericism, Enthusiasm, and Ecology in Early Modern EuropeVita I: "Strange things of the Invisible worlds": Kelpius in Europe, 1667-1693Chapter Two: "Gone into the Ancient Forest": Hermetic Protestantism and Environmental Knowledge in Early PennsylvaniaVita II: "I cannot pass beyond to my homeland": Kelpius in Rotterdam, London, and the Atlantic, 1693-1694Chapter Three: "The Woman in the Wilderness": Kelpius and Company on the Ridge of the Wissahickon, 1694-1707Chapter Four: The Threefold Wilderness State: Ascetic Alchemy and the Technology of Self-NegationVita III: "Delay not longer the blessed day": Kelpius in Germantown, 1694-1703-4-5-6-7Chapter Five: The Long Shadow of the Enlightenment: Memories of Kelpius in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland (1798)Chapter Six: "Weird as a Wizard": History and Literature in the Emergence of the American Kelpius LegendConclusion: An Unmute Gospel

Timothy Grieve-Carlson is Assistant Professor of Religion at Westminster College.

...scholars of American religion and history would find great value in reading this fantastic historical work.

• Introduction: "Strange Things Happening Every Day"Chapter One: "No Wisdom in Nature": Esotericism, Enthusiasm, and Ecology in Early Modern EuropeVita I: "Strange things of the Invisible worlds": Kelpius in Europe, 1667-1693Chapter Two: "Gone into the Ancient Forest": Hermetic Protestantism and Environmental Knowledge in Early PennsylvaniaVita II: "I cannot pass beyond to my homeland": Kelpius in Rotterdam, London, and the Atlantic, 1693-1694Chapter Three: "The Woman in the Wilderness": Kelpius and Company on the Ridge of the Wissahickon, 1694-1707Chapter Four: The Threefold Wilderness State: Ascetic Alchemy and the Technology of Self-NegationVita III: "Delay not longer the blessed day": Kelpius in Germantown, 1694-1703-4-5-6-7Chapter Five: The Long Shadow of the Enlightenment: Memories of Kelpius in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland (1798)Chapter Six: "Weird as a Wizard": History and Literature in the Emergence of the American Kelpius LegendConclusion: An Unmute Gospel