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Dreaming of a New Jerusalem: Jane Lead's Visions of Wisdom

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Jane Lead was a seventeenth-century prophetess, a mystic and visionary who became the religious leader of the Philadelphian Society in London at the end of the seventeenth century. She wrote at least 15 books and treatises, including a spiritual diary entitled A Fountain of Gardens which spans sixteen years and is nearly 2,500 pages long. Nearly all her works were translated into German and Dutch and published during her lifetime.

Key Words: Jane Lead • Sophia • New Jerusalem • prophetess

Feminist Theology, Vol. 14, No. 3, 349-365 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0966735006063774


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