Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2020) 185-212
Keywords:
Kook, Abraham Isaac, Criticism and interpretation
;
Mysticism Judaism
;
God (Judaism)
;
Zionism and Judaism
Abstract:
R. Kook is best-known today for his paradoxical embrace of secular Zionism as a covert harbinger and embodiment of the traditional messianic dream. Despite its considerable influence on the trajectory of modern Israeli politics, the practical conclusions that have (rightly or wrongly) been distilled from this understanding of the nature of contemporary Jewish nationalism are increasingly challenged by a more complicated political reality. Other more radical implications of this blurring of theological boundaries, however, which have their roots in modern offshoots of classical Kabbala and parallel tropes of German idealism, bear notions that are surprisingly relevant to more fluid and humanist notions of religious belief in a post-Kantian age. These bear the potential for revising our understanding of the concept of God and of the grounding of religious dogma at large.
DOI:
10.1017/9781108233705.009
URL:
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