Johann Valentin Andreae: Gesammelte Schriften / Band 7: Veri Christianismi solidaeque philosophiae libertas (1618)

This volume contains Andreae’s three Libertas works: The ›Bonae Causae Fiducia‹ provides a survey and stock-taking of the Reformation. The ›Theologiae Encomium‹ emulates Erasmus‘s ›In Praise of Folly‹. In ›Libertatis Encomium‹, Andreae outlined a Christian philosophy which, similar to the Rosicrucian Manifestos, had its origins in the Renaissance philosophy of a Ficino or Pico. This is characterized by the extensive recourse to allegory and emblematic.