Johann Arndt and the Little Ice Age

[Paul Ferguson]

"The sky in the northern hemisphere had been darkened, the winters unusually harsh, and the summers barely arriving for decades when the German Lutheran author Johann Arndt published his Four Books on True Christianity in 1610...Arndt’s book was unorthodox: there was very little of Luther’s theology, and quite a lot of alchemical philosophy. He borrowed heavily from the work of the Swiss alchemist Paracelsus, often simply excerpting large portions of the latter’s writing without attribution. In doing so, Arndt injected early modern Protestantism with a heavy dose of Hermetic philosophy."

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/his...ate-change


Arndt's text here in English translation:

https://archive.org/details/true-christianity


Wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Arndt