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CABBALA · THE NAMES OF GOD AND OF CHRIST IN THE SYNCRETIC RENAISSANCE: MYSTICAL, MAGICAL AND VISUAL WORDS IN CHRISTIAN KABBALAH.

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2016-07-01 → 2018-06-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 173 076 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Християнската Кабала в Ренесанса изследва взаимодействието между еврейската и християнската култура, като анализира символиката на имената на Бог и Христос. Това помага да се разбере опитът за постигане на културна хармония и преодоляване на религиозните конфликти през този период.

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Резултати накратко

THE NAMES OF GOD AND OF CHRIST IN THE SYNCRETIC RENAISSANCE: MYSTICAL, MAGICAL AND VISUAL WORDS IN CHRISTIAN KABBALAH.

The project aimed to investigate the intellectual encounter between the Christian and Jewish cultures in the Renaissance through a specific study of Christian Kabbalistic theories on the names of God and Jesus.These theories, characterized by the elaboration of a Christological interpretation of data on Jewish mysticism and by the formulation of a Kabbalistic justification of Christian dogma, are an evident example of the exchanges, contaminations and hybridisations, laden with culturally creative and innovative implications, in a historical period of great ideological and religious contrasts. They are the result of a convergence between Jewish and Christian truths and manifest the fundamental irenic vocation of Christian Kabbalah. Born in the context of Italian Humanism, not without an apologetic vein at least in the declarations intended to defend the movement, Christian Kabbalah, considered scandalous by its detractors, presents itself, with the intent of some of its advocates, as the project of a cultural synthesis to achieve the harmony of knowledge and overcome denominational conflicts. Among other things, based on the Kabbalistic speculations of language, Christian Kabbalists engaged in the development of a linguistic and symbolic theory of the Name of God, exploring the question of the vocalisation of the Tetragrammaton and the symbolic meaning of the letters composing it, proposing innovative, at times, unorthodox interpretations. The objective I set out to achieve in this project was to highlight some of the salient features of this debate on nomina sacra, framing it within the broader scenario of a reconstruction of the general theorisation of the nature and purpose of the Kabbalah in the examined authors. The project, as conceived, carried on the attempt of reconstructing, on the basis on an analytical survey of various treatises and their corresponding historical and cultural contexts, some essential theoretical nodes of a shared language characterising humanistic and Renaissance knowledge, looking fundamentally at aspects that have not yet been explored: little known manuscripts, rare texts and translations never studied before.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The present research project aims at examining fresh material about the syncretistic tradition in the 15th and 16th centuries: it includes a wide range of theories by the so-called Christian Kabbalists about the different names of God and of Jesus in the context of Renaissance thought. The study will focus especially on the Christian Kabbalistic reading of the Tetragrammaton, the Pentagrammaton, and the Trigrammaton, i.e. the various names of God as expressions of new Christological interpretations to Jewish Kabbalistic doctrines. More specifically, this project intends to devote greater attention to the analysis of Renaissance syncretism in two ways: as a linguistic instrument and as a performative power. The analysis will be examined through the writings of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Johannes Reuchlin, Giles of Viterbo, Niccolò Camerario, Francesco Zorzi and Arcangelo da Borgonovo. This research will also consider some unknown Jewish sources that influenced, either explicitly or implicitly, the Christian Kabbalistic theory of the divine names. Our purpose is therefore to answer the question of facing theological “otherness” in the Renaissance through a new type of cultural synthesis. In some way, combining Abrahamic faith with Kabbalah, Hermeticism and Trinitarian creeds, results in overcoming the conflicts of dogmas in order to converge towards a unified plurality of traditions. Starting with the hypothesis of a Kabbalistic “metamorphosis” of humanistic theology in the Renaissance, we hope that the proposed research will demonstrate that the Christian theories on Jewish divine names, against the background of Kabbalah and “barbarous wisdom”, was impossible without transgressing sacred boundaries and creating new values. Accordingly the work of many Christian Kabbalists should be reintegrated into the european heritage as the first stage of a cultural change, where a comparative frame of mind is essential for the sake of interreligious dialogue.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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