Abstract

This study aims to provide a detailed intellectual analysis of Theologia Deutsch, an anonymous work of ’German mysticism’ dating to the turn of the 15th century which had a fundamental impacted on the development of theological and philosophical thought in the German lands during the 16 th century. The author lays particular emphasis on the work’s neo-Platonic roots, outlines its most important philosophical underpinnings, situates the work in its contemporary intellectual context and finally establishes links to certain strands of 16th-and 17th-century thought evident particularly in the works of Valentin Weigel, Sebastian Franck and Jacob Böhme.