Story of Hebrew by Lewis. Glinert

Author:Lewis. Glinert [Glinert, Lewis.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2016-01-14T23:00:00+00:00

Christian Kabbalah: A Theology of Its Own

Christian Kabbalah (soon to become post-Christian Kabbalah) began to seek meaning in every paralinguistic and metalinguistic dimension of Hebrew esotericism, employing the techniques of Reuchlin but also analyzing the names and shapes of letters, diacritics, cantillation marks, and scribal adornments. While stemming from Kabbalah and beliefs about Hebrew, Christian kabbalism was widely perceived on all sides as a distinct set of values, ideas, and practices.

This new kabbalism focused not on worship of God but on mystical enlightenment and the limitless powers that gnosis or esoteric knowledge could grant to man. Manipulations of the Hebrew language, speculative numerology, and other theurgic techniques promised practitioners limitless intellectual power, untrammeled by the Church. By the cunning of history, this quest to control the natural world by means of the supernatural world would profoundly influence those who sought to control the natural world through knowledge of nature itself. Students of Christian Kabbalah would eventually include such scientific rationalists as Francis Bacon, Giordano Bruno, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and Isaac Newton. Indeed, Christian kabbalism could be said to have supplied much of the intellectual confidence that underwrote early modern science.

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