Gender, Kabbalah and the Reformation: The Mystical Theology of Guillaume Postel (1510-1581)

This study examines the thought of Guillaume Postel (1510-1581), a French religious thinker who relied on Jewish Kabbalah and its mystical understanding of gender to argue that a female messiah had arrived who would heal the political and religious conflicts of sixteenth-century Europe.

About the author

Yvonne Petry, Ph.D. (1997) in History, University of Manitoba, is Professor of History at Luther College, University of Regina. She has recently contributed several chapters to a collaborative work entitled Webs of Reality: Social Perspectives on Science and Religion (Rutgers, 2002).

Product details

• Authors: Yvonne Petry
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2004
• EAN: 9789004138018
• ISBN: 978-90-04-13801-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 241 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 451 g
• Series: Studies in Medieval and Reform
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries