Beside the Lutheran and Calvinist churches ran a quieter current of reform that put the inner word above creed and institution. The Haverford philosopher and Quaker historian traces it through Hans Denck, Sebastian Franck, Caspar Schwenckfeld, Valentine Weigel and Jacob Boehme, then follows its seeds into England among the Seekers, the Cambridge Platonists and the early Friends.
A 1914 study from the series on Quaker history, and still a lucid guide to the mystics the Reformation left behind. Download the free EPUB.