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Divine contractions: theism gives birth to idealism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2018

TYRON GOLDSCHMIDT  and
SAMUEL LEBENS
TYRON GOLDSCHMIDT*
Affiliation:
526 Lattimore Hall, Department of Philosophy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY14627, USA
SAMUEL LEBENS*
Affiliation:
Department of philosophy, University of Haifa, Abba Khoushy Ave 199, Haifa, 3498838, Israel
*
e-mail: [email protected]
e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

The first part of the article presents three little arguments from theism to idealism. The second part employs these arguments to make sense of a puzzling doctrine of Jewish mysticism: the doctrine of divine contraction (Heb. tzimtzum).

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Religious Studies , Volume 56 , Issue 4 , December 2020 , pp. 509 - 524
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018

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