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Kabbalah and Postmodernism: A Dialogue

Book information

Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing
Year
2009
ISBN
1433103044, 9781433103049
ISSN
1086-5403
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7658015 bytes)
Series
Studies in Judaism 3
Pages
xvi+338\357
Topic
Religion kabbalah
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-08-19 12:43:01

Description

Kabbalah and Postmodernism: A Dialogue challenges certain long-held philosophical and theological beliefs, including the assumptions that the insights of mystical experience are unavailable to human reason and inexpressible in linguistic terms, that the God of traditional theology either does or does not exist, that «systematic theology» must provide a univocal account of God, man, and the world, that «truth» is «absolute» and not continually subject to radical revision, and that the truth of propositions in philosophy and theology excludes the truth of their opposites and contradictions. Readers of Kabbalah and Postmodernism will be exposed to a comprehensive mode of theological thought that incorporates the very doubts that would otherwise lead one to challenge the possibility of theology and religion, and which both preserves the riches of the Jewish tradition and extends beyond Judaism to a non-dogmatic universal philosophy and ethic.

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