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Not too much on the Wanting to know more about Jewish Mysticism unless to read about its historical beliefs only as the Kabbala is what most would call new age or a different form of Buddhism which has mixed Itself in many religions and witchcraft into gaining enlightenment. As a Messianic believer I would not want to steer others onto these type of resources,
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Having pursued Buddhism in graduate school and having spent time in class and writing papers on mysticism and perennial philosophy, I strongly object to your depiction of Jewish Mysticism and Buddhism. To associated either with new age, syncretism, and witchcraft shows a complete misunderstanding of why there is a stream of thought called "perennial philosophy". For apologetics that is willing to start at the beginning (as opposed to presuppositional apologetics), a solid understanding of perennial philosophy, sufism, kabbalah, merkabah, esoteric Christianity is essential. If you wish to truncate your defense of religion specifically Christianity/Messianic Judaism you are free to ignore them.
Yes, folks, this is something MJ feels strongly about ... I hate willful ignorance in areas that can shine new perspectives on what you know to be true. Quick -- how do you understand Palamas without acknowledging the influence of Sufism on his thought? or Lull without Kabbala?
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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MJ. Smith said:
Yes, folks, this is something MJ feels strongly about ...
Well, as long as you feel strongly about it... [;)]
If there's room for dreck about Trump being America's God-given savior in Logos, I see no reason to resist the Zohar. Still want to see Bart in Logos.
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David Paul said:
If there's room for dreck about Trump being America's God-given savior in Logos, I see no reason to resist the Zohar. Still want to see Bart in Logos.
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Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Logos has several selections from the Zohar already, from places like Skylight Paths, as well as rabbinical tales, and lots of self-help/mysticism/judaica titles. So I didn't think that there was an issue with the nature of the content, but I thought it was strange that there was no academic translation of the complete Zohar which also had critical textual info. It seemed like an obvious gap, Stanford Univ press is reputable and the Pritzker Zohar is a well respected project. The works appear already to be available in ebook format, with voluminous references, which would integrate well into Logos software, and be a nice complement to the Aramaic Bible and other academic Judaica titles available on this site.
Personally, I'm not offended by logos making any text available -- if there are scriptural references and references to other works already in the logos eco-system, then there is value add to including the book here and it will find customers, and the Pritzker titles will be of interest to researchers as well as seminary students.
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