Misticismo en el primitivo cristianismo
Estudio de algunos espacios y prácticas
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https://doi.org/10.47182/rb.87.n1-2-2025435Keywords:
early Christianity, visionary, Jewish mysticism, Christian mysticism, Merkaba, ascensionAbstract
The article exposes the continuity of the mystical-angelomorphic model developed in various Jewish mystical trajectories, which have been reworked in various fantastic accounts of early Christianity such as: the present transformation, the mysticism of vision and the mysticism of Ascent. This continuity is understood through the theory of space applied at the studies on Judeo-Christian mysticism. This theory understands the texts as a product of a common space, that is, of Judaism at the turn of the era as a fragmented, polymorphic, and ideologically conflicted social reality. Christianity emerges as a Jewish phenomenon with visionary characters that was situated in polymorphic continuity with marginal trajectories of a type of mystical Judaism existing in esoteric and apocalyptic spaces of Second Temple Judaism.
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