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Knorr's "Messias puer": between Western Esotericism and the Study of Religion

par Vileno, Anna Maria
Référence Western Esotericism and the Concept of God(s). The Eighth Annual Conference of the Israeli Network for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism (INASWE) (30 Mai 2018: Jerusalem)
Publication Non publié, 2018-05-30

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Résumé :

Christian Knorr von Rosenroth (1636-1689) was a major Christian Kabbalist of the Seventeenth Century and the author of the Kabbala denudata, an extensive anthology of kabbalistic texts from the Lurianic tradition. The recent recovery of a manuscript of his entitled Historiae evangelicae initium secundum quatuor Evangelistas which has not previously received any scholarly attention sheds new light on Christian Knorr’s involvement as a Christian Kabbalist, and also contributes to a re-evaluation of the relationship between Western Esotericism, Early Modern thought and the raising of a new discipline of the study of religions. This lecture aims at presenting this new work of von Rosenroth and at exploring his conception of God, in the context of inter-religious contacts between Judaism and Christianity, in the context of Christian Kabbalah.