Journal of Religion and Theology
March 18, 2026
Julian Ungar-Sargon
1 citation
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...
Journal of Religion and Theology
September 2, 2025
Julian Ungar-Sargon
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...
Journal of Religion and Theology
August 5, 2025
Julian Ungar-Sargon
1 citation
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...
Journal of Religion and Theology
July 21, 2025
Julian Ungar-Sargon
2 citations
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...
Journal of Religion and Theology
May 29, 2025
Julian Ungar-Sargon
1 citation
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...