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[German Version] (Jun 8, 1779, Oberursel, Taunus – Mar 23, 1860, Frankfurt am Main), late Romantic philosopher of religion and the author of the last major outline of a “Christian Kabbalah” (III) in the tradition of G. Pico della Mirandola and J. Reuchlin. Molitor studied law and philosophy with those close to of Isaak Sinclair, G.W.F. Hegel, F.W.J. Schelling, and J. v. Görres, and worked as a teacher from 1807 to 1828, notably at the Jewish Philanthropin in Frankfurt. In 1808, he was one of the f…

[German Version] I. Philosophy of Religion – II. Jewish Kabbalah – III. Christian Kabbalah I. Philosophy of Religion Since c. 1200, Kabbalah has been the designation for Jewish mysticism (III, 2). According to the name, the term Kabbalah means “reception” or “tradition”: the reception of an orally transmitted, esoteric knowledge concerning the “secrets of Scripture” ( rasin de oraita; sitre tora). The material that can be considered Kabbalah can be described in terms of (a) the philosophy of religion or phenomenology, or (b) history. A phenomenologica…