Ariana
Ariana or Aryana , general name for the eastern provinces of the ancient Persian Empire. It was used to mean the regions S of the Oxus (modern Amu Darya) River; the regions to the north were called Transoxiana (see Sogdiana ). Ariana is included in present E Iran, N and E Afghanistan, and India NE of the Indus River.
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Friday, January 13
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 1/6/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...plea bargain that allows him to escape prison and rejoin his family in the United States. Today's Birthdays: Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (1616-1680); Prosper Jolyot de Crebillion, French dramatist (1674-1762); Pietro Metastasic...
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Sunday, January 13
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 1/6/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...people near Bologna _ the worst civilian massacre in Italy during World War II. The 10 receive life sentences for murder, while seven others are acquitted. Today's Birthdays: Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (1616-1680);
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The Apocryphal Apocalypse: The Reception of the Second Book o fEsdras (4 Exra) from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...and in this he includes the Rosicrucians and various mystics or pietists such as Paracelsus, Jacob Boehme, and Antoinette Bourignon. An intriguing aspect of Hamilton's study is his exposition of the influential role of Second Esdras within...
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Monday, January 13
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 1/7/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...years in prison for loaning $1,000 to a founder of the illegal China Democracy Party. Today's Birthdays: Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (1616-1680); Prosper Jolyot de Crebillion, French dramatist (1674-1762); Pietro Metastasic...
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Being Interior: Autobiography and the Contradictions of Modernity in Seventeenth Century France.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...operated on the fringes of the Catholic Church. In chapter 3 Paige explores texts written by Jean de Labadie, Antoinette Bourignon, and Jeanne Guyon. Such early forms of autobiography function, Paige argues, 'positively, as tales of their...
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Sunday, Jan. 13
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 1/6/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...an undisclosed number of followers to labor camps during an 18-month-old crackdown. Today's Birthdays: Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (1616-1680); Prosper Jolyot de Crebillion, French dramatist (1674-1762); Pietro Metastasic...
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Antoinette Bourignon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Antoinette Bourignon , 1616-80, Flemish Christian mystic, adherent of quietism...Light of the World (1696). Bibliography: See A. R. Macewen, Antoinette Bourignon, Quietist (1910).
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Bourignon, Antoinette
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Bourignon, Antoinette (1616–80), Flemish enthusiast and mystical writer. She tried to found a new ascetic order, but after 1662 she became estranged from mainstream Christianity. She influenced P. Poiret , who published her works.
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Jan Swammerdam
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...religion led Swammerdam to meet the Flemish mystic Antoinette Bourignon in 1673, who had a profound influence on his life...of the life history of the mayfly which was, to Antoinette Bourignon, a "little beast which lives for only a single...
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Mysticism
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...Fox and Quakerism. —Boehmenist, Boehmist, Boehmenite , n. Bourigianism the mystical theories of Antoinette Bourignon (1616-80), popular in the Netherlands and in Scotland. Gnosticism the beliefs and practices of pre-Christian...
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Poiret, Pierre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Poiret, Pierre (1646–1719), French Protestant spiritual writer. He was an admirer of Antoinette Bourignon . His Bibliotheca mysticorum (1708) contains out-of-the-way information on minor writers on mystical subjects.
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