Ein Sof as the Christian God

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Ein Sof as the Christian God is a Christian Kabbalistic reinterpretation that identifies the infinite, unknowable divine of Jewish mysticism with the transcendent, absolute God of Christian theology.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian Kabbalistic reinterpretation
syncretic religious idea
theological concept
aimsTo demonstrate compatibility of Kabbalah with Christian revelation
associatedWith Athanasius Kircher
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Johann Reuchlin
Renaissance Christian Kabbalists
linked to: Christian Kabbalah
category Christian esotericism
Christian–Jewish theological interaction
interreligious reinterpretation of Jewish concepts
coreIdea the infinite and unknowable Ein Sof is equated with the transcendent Christian God
criticizedBy some Christian theologians as speculative mysticism
some Jewish scholars as Christian appropriation of Kabbalah
distinguishedFrom mainstream Christian dogmatic theology
mainstream Jewish Kabbalistic understanding of Ein Sof
doctrinalTensionWith classical Christian doctrine of creation ex nihilo when interpreted incautiously
traditional Jewish understandings of Ein Sof
emphasizes divine infinity
divine transcendence
divine unknowability
identifies Ein Sof
the Christian God
linked to: God
influencedBy Jewish Kabbalah
linked to: Kabbalah

Lurianic Kabbalah
linked to: Safed Kabbalah

medieval Jewish mysticism
integratesConcept Kabbalistic sefirot as emanations of the Christian God
interprets Kabbalistic infinity as the Christian God beyond being and essence
philosophicalTheme absolute divine simplicity
infinite being
transcendence beyond all attributes
relatedConcept Logos mysticism in Christian thought
Neoplatonic Christian theology
linked to: Neoplatonism
relatesTo Christian Kabbalah
Christian mysticism
apophatic theology
negative theology in Christianity
religiousTradition Christianity
sometimesInterprets Ein Sof as the Father in the Christian Trinity
sefirot as symbols of Trinitarian processions
textualContext Christian Kabbalistic commentaries on the Zohar
Renaissance Christian treatises on Kabbalah
timePeriod Renaissance
early modern period
usesLanguageFrom Hebrew Kabbalistic terminology
viewedAs attempt to harmonize Kabbalah with Christian Trinitarian theology

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Christian Kabbalah reinterpretsConcept Ein Sof as the Christian God