RT Article T1 Divine contractions: theism gives birth to idealism JF Religious studies VO 56 IS 4 SP 509 OP 524 A1 Goldschmidt, Tyron 1982- A1 Lebens, Samuel 1983- LA English PB Cambridge Univ. Press YR 2020 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1741551668 AB The first part of the article presents three little arguments from theism to idealism. The second part employs these arguments to make sense of a puzzling doctrine of Jewish mysticism: the doctrine of divine contraction (Heb. tzimtzum). DO 10.1017/S0034412518000665