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Article: Gender, Kabbalah and the Reformation: The Mystical Theology of Guillaume Postel 1510-1581.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- March 22, 2006
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Gender, Kabbalah and the Reformation: The Mystical Theology of Guillaume Postel (1510-1581), by Yvonne Petry. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions. Leiden, Brill, 2004. ix, 191 pp. $125.00 US (cloth).
In this short book, Petry presents a comprehensive account of the life and thought of Guillaume Postel. Although Postel's sanity has been questioned, Petry demonstrates that there was nothing insane about his unorthodox theology, even though it was centred on his belief in a female redeemer and the dawning of a new age in which human beings would achieve perfection under the aegis of a reformed Catholic Church and French monarch. Perry argues that Postel ...