This essay reads a deceptively simple folk parable -two unborn twins debating whether life exists beyond the womb -as a compressed theological treatise on the dialectic between divine immanence and transcendence.Drawing upon the Kabbalistic concept of tzimtzum, the Shekhinah traditions of Jewish mysticism, the hester panim theology of divine concealment, and the post-Holocaust theological...
This study provides a comprehensive critical analysis of Brother Gilbert (Athol) Bloomer's 2013 theological corpus, examining his ambitious attempt to synthesize Jewish mystical traditions with Catholic sacramental theology through what he terms "heretical kabbalah."Drawing on contemporary scholarship in Jewish mysticism, religious studies methodology, postcolonial criticism, and interfaith...
The motif of Or HaGanuz-the "Hidden Light"-represents one of the most enduring esoteric themes in Jewish theology.Emerging from the first verses of Genesis and developed through Midrashic imagination, Talmudic tradition, Kabbalistic speculation, and Hasidic reimagining, Or HaGanuz serves as a bridge between the primordial and the eschatological, the concealed and the revealed.This article...
This essay explores the profound implications of recognizing the sacred theological origins of Cartesian mind-body dualism for contemporary healthcare transformation.Drawing from the thesis that Descartes' supposedly secular philosophy emerged from Neoplatonic, Augustinian, and mystical Christian traditions, this work proposes a revolutionary healthcare model that reclaims medicine's sacred...
This article examines the complex interplay between language, meaning, and divine revelation in Jewish textual traditions through comparative analysis of diverse interpretative frameworks: the intellectual approach of Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin, the hermeneutics of religious passion and restraint developed by the Netziv (Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin), the contemporary philosophical perspectives...
The relationship between religion and psychosis is one of the most important and unanswered questions in pastoral psychology, theology, and psychiatry.Several studies suggested that psychotic states, such as schizophrenia,are associated with enhanced religiousness and spirituality.In a dominantly Christian, Eastern-European population, however, this is not the case.The data clearly show...
Abstract The mystics always have a special interest in human beings. They think about both human being and his ideas, that is, in their thinking anthropology is of great importance from various dimensions especially epistemological, ethical and social. Therefore, the drawing and explanation of the features of the mystical man is a concern. They are for the sake of man and his greatness. Of...
Abstract In the mystical worldview, the word “love” has a broad and multi-layered concept. Most of the mystics of different nations regard love as one of the basic principles and teachings in the world of mysticism. Many of them have pledged underlying conditions in the path of conduct and achievement to the position of knowledge and certainty of majesty of God to elixir of love. In the school...