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The Impact of the Kabbalah in the Seventeenth Century - Life and Thought of Francis Mercury van Helmont (1614-1698) (Hardcover)
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The Impact of the Kabbalah in the Seventeenth Century - Life and Thought of Francis Mercury van Helmont (1614-1698) (Hardcover)
Series: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, 9
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"If he had lived among the Greeks, he would now be numbered among
the stars." So wrote Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in his epitaph for
Francis Mercury van Helmont. Leibniz was not the only contemporary
to admire and respect van Helmont, but although famous in his own
day, he has been virtually ignored by modern historians. Yet his
views influenced Leibniz, contributed to the development of modern
science, and fostered the kind of ecumenicalism that made the
concept of toleration conceivable.
The progressive nature of van Helmont's thought was based on his
deep commitment to the esoteric doctrines of the Lurianic Kabbalah.
With his friend Christian Knorr von Rosenroth, van Helmont edited
the "Kabbala Denudata (1677-1684), the largest collection of
Lurianic Kabbalistic texts available to Christians up to that time.
Because the subject matter of this work appears so difficult and
arcane, it has never been appreciated as a significant text for
understanding the emergence of modern thought. However, one can
find in it the basis for the faith in science, the belief in
progress, and the pluralism characteristic of later western
thought. The Lurianic Kabbalah thus deserves a place it has never
received in histories of western scientific and cultural
developments.
Although van Helmont's efforts contributed to the development of
religious toleration, his experience as a prisoner of the
Inquisition accused of "Judaising" reveals the problematic
relations between Christians and Jews during the early-modern
period. New Inquisitional documents relating to van Helmont's
imprisonment will be discussed to illustrate the difficulties faced
by anyone advocating philo-semitism and toleration at the time.
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