The Kabbalistic “Teaching Panel” of Princess Antonia: Divine Knowledge for Both Experts and Laity

This article explores the complex interweaving of kabbalistic and Christological concepts within the kabbalistic “teaching panel” (Lehrtafel) of Princess Antonia of Württemberg. The essay discusses the artwork in the context of visual representations of the ten sefirot, the divine attributes or vess...

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Auteur principal: Morlok, Elke 1969- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2018
Dans: Church history and religious culture
Année: 2018, Volume: 98, Numéro: 1, Pages: 56-90
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Gruber, Johann Friedrich 1620-1681, Lehrtafel der Prinzessin Antonia / Kabbale chrétienne / Théologie laïque
RelBib Classification:BH Judaïsme
CC Christianisme et religions non-chrétiennes; relations interreligieuses
CE Art chrétien
KAH Époque moderne
KBB Espace germanophone
KDD Église protestante
Sujets non-standardisés:B Christian Kabbalah sefirot lay theology symbolism Philosophia Perennis Arbor Sephirotica
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Verlag)
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Résumé:This article explores the complex interweaving of kabbalistic and Christological concepts within the kabbalistic “teaching panel” (Lehrtafel) of Princess Antonia of Württemberg. The essay discusses the artwork in the context of visual representations of the ten sefirot, the divine attributes or vessels in Jewish mysticism. Executed as an altarpiece for the church in Bad Teinach in Southern Germany, the work integrates the sefirot into a pansophic concept that served devotional and educational purposes with a salvific goal. The article argues that, with the Lehrtafel, Antonia and her teachers created a devotional object that could be accessed by both regular Christian laity and experts who possessed deeper knowledge of Kabbalah.
ISSN:1871-2428
Contient:In: Church history and religious culture
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18712428-09801005