Geschichte der christlichen Kabbala. Band 1 - Schmidt-Biggemann, Wilhelm
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The first volume deals with the foundation of the Christian Kabbalah from the late Middle Ages up until the end of the 16th century. This volume begins with the basic prehistory of this doctrine ranging from Maimonides to Nikolaus von Kues. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and, above all, Johannes Reuchlin provide the actual conception of the main topoi. The Christian Kabbalah becomes a downright fashionable science: the Roman cardinal Aegidius of Viterbo, the Venetian Minor and prior Giorgio Veneto (Zorzi), the imperial and electoral doctor Agrippa of Nettesheim as well as the Franciscan…mehr

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The first volume deals with the foundation of the Christian Kabbalah from the late Middle Ages up until the end of the 16th century. This volume begins with the basic prehistory of this doctrine ranging from Maimonides to Nikolaus von Kues. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and, above all, Johannes Reuchlin provide the actual conception of the main topoi. The Christian Kabbalah becomes a downright fashionable science: the Roman cardinal Aegidius of Viterbo, the Venetian Minor and prior Giorgio Veneto (Zorzi), the imperial and electoral doctor Agrippa of Nettesheim as well as the Franciscan Arcangelo da Borgonovo from Bologna further developed the Kabbalistic concepts and positions. The French philologist and prophet Guillaume Postel was the intellectually dominating figure throughout the second half of the 16th century. The concluding chapters are dedicated to the Spanish spiritualist Luis de Léon and to Johannes Pistorius, editor of the influential collection 'Ars Cabalistica' (1587). Thus, this volume brings together all important authors of the Christian Kabbalah during the Renaissance.
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Helmut Zander ist dankbar für das von Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann avisierte vierbändige Projekt und die Auslieferung des ersten Bandes, in dem der Philosoph Verschränkungen zwischen Judentum und Christentum anhand früher Protagonisten der christlichen Kabbala aufzeigen kann. Pico della Mirandola, Johannes Reuchlin, Agrippa von Nettesheim rettet der Autor laut Rezensent vor dem Vergessen und zeigt sie uns in einer klassischen Ideengeschichte samt Angaben zu den jeweiligen sozialen Kontexten. Zander zufolge könnte sich daraus nicht weniger als eine brandneue Perspektive auf die Religionsgeschichte Europas ergeben.

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»This volume is the beginning of a fulfillment for a pressing need in the study of European religious thought in early modern times: a systematic historical presentation of the authors in the second half of the fifteenth century to the second half of the eighteenth. [...] This volume is a most promising beginning of a historical study of [a] major phenomenon in Christian spirituality.« Joseph Dan, Renaissance Quarterly