Svartkonstboecker by Thomas K Johnson

Svartkonstboecker by Thomas K Johnson

Svartkonstb cker is a fully revised edition of Dr Johnson's 2010 PhD Thesis Tidebast och V ndelrot: Magical Representations in the Swedish Black Art Book Tradition, featuring a thorough, path-breaking study of the black art book tradition in Sweden, as well as English translations of 35 Swedish black art books ranging from the 1690s to the 1940s, including over 1900 spells and a robust index.

The late Dr Johnson always wished that his work would see print publication in its entirety. Other publishers have offered to produce this work in two volumes, prioritizing the spells in the black art books over the scholarly apparatus that contextualizes them. Here Revelore presents the work in full, comprising over 650 pages of material. Minor errors from the PhD manuscript have been rectified, and archival images of the characters, sigils, and illustrations have been restored in high fidelity. This is the definitive source work for the Swedish magical corpus of black art books.

Johnson, Thomas K.: - Thomas K. Johnson received his Ph.D. in ethics from the University of Iowa (1987) after a research fellowship at Eberhard-Karls Universitat. He received his M.Div. (Magna Cum Laude) from Covenant Theological Seminary (St. Louis) and BA from Hope College (Michigan). After serving as a church planter in the Presbyterian Church in America, he became a visiting professor of philosophy at the European Humanities University (EHU) in Minsk, Belarus, 1994-1996. (EHU is a dissident, anti-Communist university, forced into exile by the Belarusian dictator in 2004.) Since 1996 Johnson and his wife have lived in Prague, where he taught philosophy at Anglo-American University (four years) and at Charles University (eight years). From 2004 to 2013 he was director of the Comenius Institute in Prague, which works to develop Czech Christian academic spokespeople. He began teaching for Martin Bucer Seminary in 2003 and has taught theology and philosophy in eleven universities or theological schools in nine countries. His wife, Leslie P. Johnson, was director of the Christian International School of Prague, 2004-2015. She is now an educational consultant for the Association of Christian Schools International. They have three married children and a growing number of grandchildren. Johnson is presently Vice President for Research, Martin Bucer Seminary; Special Advisor to the International Institute for Religious Freedom (WEA); Professor of Philosophy, Global Scholars; and Senior Advisor to the Theological Commission of the WEA. In 2016 he was appointed Religious Freedom Ambassador to the Vatican, representing the World Evangelical Alliance and its 600 million members.

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ISBN 13	9781947544222
ISBN 10	1947544225
Title	Svartkonstboecker
Author	Thomas K Johnson
Series	Folk Necromancy In Transmission
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Revelore Press
Year published	2019-09-21
Number of pages	666
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