Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism

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  • Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism Book Detail

  • Author : Menachem Kellner
  • Release Date : 2006-09-21
  • Publisher : Liverpool University Press
  • Genre : Religion
  • Pages : 364
  • ISBN 13 : 190982108X
  • File Size : 41,41 MB
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Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism by Menachem Kellner PDF Summary

Book Description: Maimonides’ vision of Judaism was deeply elitist, but at the same time profoundly universalistic. He was highly critical of the regnant Jewish culture of his day, which he perceived as so heavily influenced by ancient Jewish mysticism as to be debased. While focusing on that critique, Menachem Kellner skilfully and accessibly demonstrates how Maimonides used philosophy to purify a corrupted and paganized religion, and to present distinctions fundamental to Judaism as institutional, sociological, and historical, rather than ontological. In Maimonides’ hands, metaphysical distinctions are translated into moral challenges.

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