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Gateway to a New Kabbalah: Jewish Mysticism, Postmodernism, and Contemporary Theology »

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Authors: Sanford L. Drob
ISBN-13: 9781433103049, ISBN-10: 1433103044
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Lang, Peter Publishing, Incorporated
Date Published: February 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Sanford L. Drob

Book Synopsis

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 but extends beyond Judaism to a non-dogmatic universal philosophy and ethic.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Postmodernism and Jewish mysticism 19

2 Derrida and Jewish mysticism 48

3 Tzimtzum and Differance 65

4 The Shevirah and deconstruction 91

5 A-systematic theology 104

6 The doctrine of Coincidentia Oppositorum in Jewish mysticism 129

7 The Torah of the tree of life 158

8 Beyond the bounds of language 180

9 Creation Ex Nihilo and the Impossible Messiah 205

10 Kabbalah, forms of consciousness and the structure of language 230

Notes 265

Bibliography 315

Index 323

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