Divine Contractions: Theism Gives Birth to Idealism

Religious Studies (forthcoming)
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The first part of the paper 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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Tyron Goldschmidt
King's College London (PhD)
Sam Lebens
University of Haifa

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