Purpose Moses Maimonides Guide of the Perplexed is pervaded by a p- manent tension regarding the possibility and extent of the knowledge of God by a created intellect, which lies at the roots of the 13th century controversy over Maimonides writings. While Maimonides asserts that its purpose is to give indications to a religious man for whom the validity of our Law has become 1 established in his soul and has become actual in his belief, one of its early opponents, Meshullam ben Solomon, writes referring to him: Those who deny the proper attributes of God speak out 2 until faith has been...

Purpose Moses Maimonides Guide of the Perplexed is pervaded by a p- manent tension regarding the possibility and extent of the knowledge of God by a created intellect, which lies at the roots of the 13th century controversy over Maimonides writings. While Maimonides asserts that its purpose is to give indications to a religious man for whom the validity of our Law has become 1 established in his soul and has become actual in his belief, one of its early opponents, Meshullam ben Solomon, writes referring to him: Those who deny the proper attributes of God speak out 2 until faith has been...