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Available initially only from our online store, this is the great scholar Ernst Benz's introduction to Christian Kabbalah. Christian Kabbalism is the interpretation of Kabbalistic themes in the context of the Christian faith, or an interpretation of Christian doctrines utilizing Kabbalistic methods and concepts. Its beginnings are generally traced back to Count Pico de la Mirandola, the well-known renaissance philosopher and creator of a Christian neo-Platonism. The great surge of mysticism within the theology and theosophy of German pietism led not only to a renaissance in the study of the Kabbalah within Protestant theology, but also to a positive evaluation of the religious content of the Kabbalah in its own right. This work includes illustrations of the famous Kabbalistic master tablet of Princess Antonia and discusses in detail the work of the great Christian theosopher Friedrich Christoph Oetinger.
Ernst Benz, Christian Kabbalah: Neglected Child of Theology,
translated by Kenneth Wesche and edited by Robert Faas
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Beginnings of Christian Kabbalism
Knorr von Rosenroth
Koppel Hecht
Isaac Luria
Old and New Kabbalah
The Kabbalistic Master Tablet of Princess Antonia
Oetinger’s Doctrine of the Sephiroth
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography