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Book Synopsis Jewish Theology for a Postmodern Age by : Miriam Feldmann Kaye
Download or read book Jewish Theology for a Postmodern Age written by Miriam Feldmann Kaye and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a critical study of the writings of Rav Shagar and Tamar Ross, Miriam Feldmann Kaye asks how Jewish theology can survive the tide of postmodernism and its refutation of a single, objective, and ultimate truth, and suggests how aspects of postmodernism might be conceived of as a potential resource for rejuvenating religion.
Book Synopsis Interpreting Judaism in a Postmodern Age by : Steven Kepnes
Download or read book Interpreting Judaism in a Postmodern Age written by Steven Kepnes and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve Jewish studies scholars interpret Jewish texts from various postmodern critical stances, finding resonances between the theories of interpretation and the texts themselves e.g. "the word" as cosmology in both deconstructionism and the Torah. The papers examine deconstruction and the bible, Talmudic cultural poetics, Kabbalistic Hermeneutics, struggles over the Hebrew canon, postmodernism and the Holocaust, Zionism and post-Zionist discourses, and Jewish feminist identity. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Mordecai Kaplan's Thought in a Postmodern Age by : S. Daniel Breslauer
Download or read book Mordecai Kaplan's Thought in a Postmodern Age written by S. Daniel Breslauer and published by South Florida-Rochester-St. Lo. This book was released on 1994 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Book Synopsis Renewing the Covenant by : Eugene B. Borowitz
Download or read book Renewing the Covenant written by Eugene B. Borowitz and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 1996-05-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borowitz creatively explores his theory of Covenant, linking self to folk and God through the contemporary idiom of relationship.
Book Synopsis Reviewing the Covenant by : Peter Ochs
Download or read book Reviewing the Covenant written by Peter Ochs and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reviewing the Covenant, six Jewish philosophers—and one Christian colleague—respond to the work of the renowned Jewish theologian Eugene B. Borowitz, one of the leading figures in the movement of "postmodern" Jewish philosophy and theology. The title recalls Borowitz's earlier book, Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the Postmodern Jew, in which he lent this movement a theological agenda, and the essays in this book respond to Borowitz's call: to revitalize contemporary Judaism by renewing the covenant that binds modern Jews to re-live and re-interpret the traditions of Judaism's past. Together with the introductory and responsive essays by Peter Ochs and Borowitz himself, the essays offer a community of dialogue, an attempt to reason-out how Jewish faith is possible after the Holocaust and how reason itself is possible after the failings of the great "-isms" of the modern world. This dialogue is conducted under the banner of "postmodern Judaism," a daunting term that by the end of the book receives a surprisingly direct meaning, namely, the condition of disillusionment and loss out of which Jews can and must find a third way out of the modern impasse between arrogant rationalism and arrogant religion. Representing a major intellectual response to the leading theologian of liberal Judaism, the book provides a significant indication of future directions in Jewish religious thought. Contributors include Eugene B. Borowitz, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, Susan Handelman, David Novak, Peter Ochs, Thomas W. Ogletree, Norbert M. Samuelson, and Edith Wyschogrod.
Book Synopsis Jewish Identity in the Postmodern Age by : Charles Selengut
Download or read book Jewish Identity in the Postmodern Age written by Charles Selengut and published by Paragon House. This book was released on 1999-06-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years since the foundation of the state of Israel in the wake of the Holocaust, Jewish Identity in the Post-Modern Age considers whether a traditional folk Judaism centered on the Holocaust and the state of israel can continue to serve as the bricks and mortar of Jewish identity as we move into the 21st Century. The writers ask whether a meaningful religious identity can be sustained on the basis of a historic catastrophe that is no longer to most people personal or immediate.Several essays deal frankly with the problem of maintaining Jewish commitment and continuity in the post-modern period, while others offer sociological and theological programs that meet the challenges of the new age and describe how developments can reinvigorate the tradition. Personal narratives by distinguished thinkers explore the pushes and pulls of Judaism on their own lives.
Book Synopsis A Magic Still Dwells by : Kimberley C. Patton
Download or read book A Magic Still Dwells written by Kimberley C. Patton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first thorough assessment of the field of comparative religion in forty years, this groundbreaking volume surmounts the seemingly intractable division between postmodern scholars who reject the comparative endeavor and those who affirm it. The contributors demonstrate that a broader vision of religion, involving different scales of comparison for different purposes, is both justifiable and necessary. A Magic Still Dwells brings together leading historians of religions from a wide range of backgrounds and vantage points, and draws from traditions as diverse as Indo-European mythology, ancient Greek religion, Judaism, Buddhism, Ndembu ritual, and the spectrum of religions practiced in America. The contributors take seriously the postmodern critique, explain its impact on their work, uphold or reject various premises, and in several cases demonstrate new comparative approaches. Together, the essays represent a state-of-the-art assessment of current issues in the comparative study of religion.
Book Synopsis Reasoning After Revelation by : Steven Kepnes
Download or read book Reasoning After Revelation written by Steven Kepnes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodern Jewish thinkers understand their Jewishness differently, but they all share a fidelity to what they call the ?Torah? and to communal practices of reading and social action that have their bases in rabbinic interpretations of biblical narrative, law, and belief. Thus, postmodern Jewish thinking is thinking about God, Jews, and the world?w
Book Synopsis Faith and Praxis in a Postmodern Age by : Ursula King
Download or read book Faith and Praxis in a Postmodern Age written by Ursula King and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1998 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a culture which has broadly rejected the possibility of absolute belief in one overriding truth. And yet we are surrounded by people who do believe, who indeed are often intensely religious, but believe in different things. This fragmentation of culture is a challenge to all major religions. Given that we have to live together, and given that many of our starting points are the same, even if our interpretations are different, how do we cope with the practical, day-to-day task of living and thriving in the same socio-political environment? This key postmodern dilemma is addressed in this valuable collection of essays by all international team of writers. In a postmodern age, can we believe at all? If we accept that we are no longer unique, where does that leave Christian spirituality? British, South African and Jewish writers explore ways in which the question of religion impacts on political life in Britain, South Africa and Israel.
Book Synopsis Jewish Theology and Process Thought by : Sandra B. Lubarsky
Download or read book Jewish Theology and Process Thought written by Sandra B. Lubarsky and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection constitutes the first extended discussion of the relationship between Judaism and process thought. In the last half century the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne have become important sources for contemporary theological reflection. Recently, a number of Jewish thinkers have examined process thought as a potentially valuable resource for postmodern Jewish theology. This book brings together many Jewish thinkers who have pioneered this discussion. Jewish thinkers who have found process thought to be a useful framework for contemporary Jewish thought discuss issues that are primarily theological, such as God's transcendence and immanence, the problem of evil, the idea of revelation. Also included is a dialogue between Jewish and Christian thinkers on the appropriateness of process thought for their religious traditions. Critical reflection on the continuities and discontinuities between Judaism and the process model is also covered.
Book Synopsis Judaism for the Post-modern Era by : Arthur Green
Download or read book Judaism for the Post-modern Era written by Arthur Green and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Louis Jacobs and the Quest for a Contemporary Jewish Theology by : Miri Freud-Kandel
Download or read book Louis Jacobs and the Quest for a Contemporary Jewish Theology written by Miri Freud-Kandel and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Louis Jacobs, the quest—the process of engaging with and thinking about Jewish faith—was a lifelong pursuit. He offered a model in the 1960s, a period characterized by general religious crisis, of an observant, committed, but intellectually curious Judaism that empowered individual seekers to address challenges to faith. In Orthodox Judaism at the time a battle was under way for religious control. Generating a widespread controversy in British Jewry known as the ‘Jacobs Affair’, his thought offers a lens for examining the trajectory of Orthodoxy. In a contemporary context marked by the changing cultural and intellectual concerns of a ‘post-secular’ age, the focus of some of these debates over religious control has shifted. Yet Jacobs’ emphasis on a personal quest is as relevant as ever, perhaps more so. This first book-length analysis of his theology unpacks the building blocks of his thought. It argues that, despite its particularities and limitations, his approach can provide a powerful model for contemporary religious seekers in the context of a growing impetus away from established, denominationally bound forms of religion. Many orthodox believers across a range of faiths continue to prefer the certainty of unquestionable religious truth claims rather than pursuing a subjective search for religious meaning. For those seeking alternative models for the contemporary Jewish quest, a reconsideration of Jacobs’ theology can offer valuable tools.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology by : Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology written by Kevin J. Vanhoozer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernity allows for no absolutes and no essence. Yet theology is concerned with the absolute, the essential. How then does theology sit within postmodernity? Is postmodern theology possible, or is such a concept a contradiction in terms? Should theology bother about postmodernism or just get on with its own thing? Can it? Theologians have responded in many different ways to the challenges posed by theories of postmodernity. In this introductory 2003 guide to a complex area, editor Kevin J. Vanhoozer addresses the issue head on in a lively survey of what 'talk about God' might mean in a postmodern age, and vice versa. The book then offers examples of different types of contemporary theology in relation to postmodernity, while the second part examines the key Christian doctrines in postmodern perspective. Leading theologians contribute to this clear and informative Companion, which no student of theology should be without.
Book Synopsis (God) After Auschwitz by : Zachary Braiterman
Download or read book (God) After Auschwitz written by Zachary Braiterman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century, argues Zachary Braiterman, has profoundly affected the future shape of religious thought. In his provocative book, the author shows how key Jewish theologians faced the memory of Auschwitz by rejecting traditional theodicy, abandoning any attempt to justify and vindicate the relationship between God and catastrophic suffering. The author terms this rejection "Antitheodicy," the refusal to accept that relationship. It finds voice in the writings of three particular theologians: Richard Rubenstein, Eliezer Berkovits, and Emil Fackenheim. This book is the first to bring postmodern philosophical and literary approaches into conversation with post-Holocaust Jewish thought. Drawing on the work of Mieke Bal, Harold Bloom, Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Michel Foucault, and others, Braiterman assesses how Jewish intellectuals reinterpret Bible and Midrash to re-create religious thought for the age after Auschwitz. In this process, he provides a model for reconstructing Jewish life and philosophy in the wake of the Holocaust. His work contributes to the postmodern turn in contemporary Jewish studies and today's creative theology.
Book Synopsis The Bible After Babel by : John Joseph Collins
Download or read book The Bible After Babel written by John Joseph Collins and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Bible after Babel John J. Collins considers the effect of the postmodern situation on biblical, primarily Old Testament, criticism over the last three decades. Collins examines the quest of historical criticism to objectively establish a text's basic meaning. Accepting that the Bible may no longer provide secure "foundations" for faith, Collins still highlights its ethical challenge to be concerned for "the other"--A challenge central both to Old Testament ethics and to the teaching of Jesus. --from publisher description.
Book Synopsis Evil and the Response of World Religion by : William Cenker
Download or read book Evil and the Response of World Religion written by William Cenker and published by Paragon House. This book was released on 1998-07-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spread of opinion from all points of the religious compass to provide readers with an overview of what each tradition, either collectively or through individual thinkers, has to say.
Book Synopsis American Post-Judaism by : Shaul Magid
Download or read book American Post-Judaism written by Shaul Magid and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articulates a new, post-ethnic American Jewishness
