Behmenism, also Behemenism and similar,'s the English-language designation for a 17th Century European Christian movement based on the teachings of German mystic and theosopher Jakob Böhme (1575-1624). The term wasn't usually applied by followers of Böhme's theosophy to themselves, but rather was used by some opponents of Böhme's thought as a polemical term. The origins of the term date back to the German literature of the 1620s, when opponents of Böhme's thought, such as the… (More on Behmenists)