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Book Synopsis Seek My Face, Speak My Name by : Arthur Green
Download or read book Seek My Face, Speak My Name written by Arthur Green and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1992 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Jews. The book is at once a beginner's invitation to the profundity of Jewish spirituality and a rich rethinking of texts and positions for those who have already walked some distance along the Jewish path.
Book Synopsis Choices in Modern Jewish Thought by : Eugene B. Borowitz
Download or read book Choices in Modern Jewish Thought written by Eugene B. Borowitz and published by Behrman House, Inc. This book was released on 1995 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish philosophy responds to the challenges of today's world. By studying the ideas of great contemporary thinkers, readers will achieve a rich understanding of our contemporary spiritual needs.
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 Doing Jewish Theology by : Neil Gillman
Download or read book Doing Jewish Theology written by Neil Gillman and published by Jewish Lights Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With clarity and passion, noted theologian Neil Gillman explores the importance of community, symbol and myth in evolution of Jewish thought and reveals extraordinary insights into the purpose of religion, our relationship with God and Jewish identity.
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 Jewish Theology in Our Time by : David J. Wolpe
Download or read book Jewish Theology in Our Time written by David J. Wolpe and published by Jewish Lights Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful and challenging examination of what Jews believe today¿ by a new generation¿s dynamic and innovative thinkers. New in Paperback! At every critical juncture in Jewish history, Jews have understood a dynamic theology to be essential for a vital Jewish community. This important collection sets the next stage of Jewish theological thought, bringing together a cross section of interesting new voices from all movements in Judaism to inspire and stimulate discussion now and in the years to come. Provocative and wide-ranging, these invigorating and creative insights from a new generation¿s thought leaders provide a coherent and inspiring picture of Jewish belief in our time. The passionate voices of a new generation of Jewish thinkers continue the dialogue with God, examining the dynamics of what Jews can believe today. They explore: ¿ A dynamic God in process ¿ The canon of Jewish literature and its potential to be both contemporary and authentic to tradition ¿ Critical terms and categories for discussing Jewish theology ¿ The ongoing nature of the Jewish search for God ¿ Ruptures within the modern Jewish condition ¿ And much more
Download or read book Contemporary Jewish Theology written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface Acknowledgments I. Introduction 1. An Incessantly Gushing Fountain: The Nature of Jewish Theology, Byron Sherwin II. Classical Theologians in the Twentieth Century: Approaches to God 2. Religion of Reason Out of the Sources of Judaism, Hermann Cohen 3. The Star of Redemption, Franz Rosenzweig 4. I and Thou 5. A Thirst for the Living God; and The Pangs of Cleansing, Abraham Isaac Kook 6. God as the Power that Makes for Salvation, Mordecai Kaplan 7. God in Search of Men, Abraham Joshua Heschel III. Contemporary Reflections on Traditional Themes A. God 8. Belief in a Personal God: The Position of Liberal Supernaturalism, Louis Jacobs 9. In Search of God, Elliot N. Dorff 10. From God to Godliness: Proposal for a Predicate Theology, Harold M. Schulweis 11. Toward a Feminist Jewish Reconstruction of Monotheism; and Further Thoughts on Liturgy as an Expression of Theology, Marcia Falk 12. Jewish Feminist Theology, Ellen M. Umansky B. Creation 13. The Wings of the Dove: Jewish Values, Science, and Halachah, David W. Weiss 14. Seek My Face, Speak My Name, Arthur Green C. Revelation 15. Revelation in the Jewish Tradition, Emanuel Levinas 16. Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew, Neil Gillman D. Redemption 17. The Natural and the Supernatural Jew, Arthur A. Cohen 18. On Jewish Eschatology, Steven Schwarzschild E. Covenant/Chosenness 19. Renewing the Covenant, Eugene Borowitz 20. The Election of Israel, David Novak 21. The Body of Faith, Michael Wyschogrod 22. Standing Again at Sinai, Judith Plaskow 23. A Jewish Theology of Jewish Relations to Other Peoples, Elliot N. Dorff F. Law 24. Halakhic Man, Joseph Soloveitchik 25. Some Criteria for Modern Jewish Observance, Jakob J. Petuchowski 26. Dynamics of Judaism, Robert Gordis 27. Engendering Judaism, Rachel Adler IV. Two Pivotal Experiences in the Twentieth Century A. The Holocaust 28. Faith after the Holocaust, Eliezer Berkovits 29. After Auschwitz, Richard Rubenstein 30. The Jewish Return into History; and To Mend the World, Emil Fackenheim 31. Cloud of Smoke, Pillar of Fire: Judaism, Christianity, and Modernity after the Holocaust, Irving Greenberg B. The State of Israel 32. Exile as a Neurotic Solution, A.B. Yehoshua 33. The Third Jewish Commonwealth, David Hartman 34. The Religious and Moral Significance of the Redemption of Israel. Yeshayahu Leibowitz 35. Beyond Innocence and Redemption, Marc Ellis V. Looking Toward the Future of Jewish Thought: A Symposium 36. New Directions in Jewish Theology in America, Arthur Green 37. Another Perspective on Theological Directions for the Jewish Future, Rebecca T. Alpert 38. The Nature and Direction of Modern Jewish Theology: Some Thoughts Occasioned by Arthur Green, David Ellenson 39. B'nei Ezra: An Introduction to Textual Reasoning, Peter Ochs Suggestions for Further Reading Biographical Sketches.
Book Synopsis How Judaism Became a Religion by : Leora Batnitzky
Download or read book How Judaism Became a Religion written by Leora Batnitzky and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new approach to understanding Jewish thought since the eighteenth century Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality—or a mixture of all of these? In How Judaism Became a Religion, Leora Batnitzky boldly argues that this question more than any other has driven modern Jewish thought since the eighteenth century. This wide-ranging and lucid introduction tells the story of how Judaism came to be defined as a religion in the modern period—and why Jewish thinkers have fought as well as championed this idea. Ever since the Enlightenment, Jewish thinkers have debated whether and how Judaism—largely a religion of practice and public adherence to law—can fit into a modern, Protestant conception of religion as an individual and private matter of belief or faith. Batnitzky makes the novel argument that it is this clash between the modern category of religion and Judaism that is responsible for much of the creative tension in modern Jewish thought. Tracing how the idea of Jewish religion has been defended and resisted from the eighteenth century to today, the book discusses many of the major Jewish thinkers of the past three centuries, including Moses Mendelssohn, Abraham Geiger, Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Zvi Yehuda Kook, Theodor Herzl, and Mordecai Kaplan. At the same time, it tells the story of modern orthodoxy, the German-Jewish renaissance, Jewish religion after the Holocaust, the emergence of the Jewish individual, the birth of Jewish nationalism, and Jewish religion in America. More than an introduction, How Judaism Became a Religion presents a compelling new perspective on the history of modern Jewish thought.
Book Synopsis Faith Finding Meaning by : Byron L. Sherwin
Download or read book Faith Finding Meaning written by Byron L. Sherwin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byron Sherwin demonstrates that Jewish theological thinking can be understood as a response to visceral existential issues and argues that human meaning and fulfillment can be discovered in the application of an authentic Jewish way of thinking and living.
Book Synopsis Perfect Goodness and the God of the Jews by : Jerome (Yehuda) Gellman
Download or read book Perfect Goodness and the God of the Jews written by Jerome (Yehuda) Gellman and published by Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and. This book was released on 2019 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the challenges that contemporary developments in morality and ethics pose to the idea of God as a "perfectly good being" the ideological critique of God on moral grounds, and the classic argument that no perfectly good being exists.
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 SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-03-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents essays by Jewish thinkers who have found process thought to be a useful framework for contemporary Jewish thought and a set of conversations between Jewish and Christian thinkers on the appropriateness of process thought for Judaism and Christianity.
Book Synopsis The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion by : Mordecai M. Kaplan
Download or read book The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion written by Mordecai M. Kaplan and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Kaplan enlarges on his notion of functional reinterpretation and then actually applies it to the entire ritual cycle of the Jewish year-a rarity in modern Jewish thought. This work continues to function as a central text for the Reconstructionist movement, whose influence continues to grow in American Jewry.
Download or read book Idolatry written by Alon Goshen-Gottstein and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idolatry, or its Hebrew equivalent Avodah Zarah ̧ is a fundamental feature of a Jewish view of other religions. All religions must pass the test of whether they are compliant with a Jewish view of religions as being free from the worship of another God. With the advance in interfaith relations, positions have been affirmed that clear most major contemporary religions from the charge of idolatry. What remains of “idolatry” once it no longer serves as a tool for evaluating other faiths? Does the category continue to have theological appeal? What are its internal uses? A cadre of Jewish scholars and thought leaders explore in this volume what the continuing relevance of “idolatry” is and how it might continue to inform our religious horizons, allowing us to distinguish between good and bad religion, both within Judaism and beyond.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology by : Steven Kepnes
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology written by Steven Kepnes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology offers an overview of Jewish theology, an aspect of Judaism that is equal in importance to law and ethics. Covering the period from antiquity to the present, the volume focuses on what Jews believe about God and also about the relation of God to humans and the world. Parts I and II cover exciting new research in Jewish biblical and rabbinic theology, medieval philosophy, Kabbalah (mysticism), and liturgy. Parts III and IV turn to modern theology with an exploration of works by leading figures, such as Rabbi Abraham I. Kook, Franz Rosenzweig, and Emmanuel Levinas, as well as the relation of theology to issues such as feminism and the Holocaust, and the relation of Judaism to other world religions. In Part V, the book explores how the insights of analytic philosophy have been integrated with Jewish theology.
Book Synopsis Contemplative Nation by : Cass Fisher
Download or read book Contemplative Nation written by Cass Fisher and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemplative Nation challenges the long-standing view that theology is not a vital part of the Jewish tradition. For political and philosophical reasons, both scholars of Judaism and Jewish thinkers have sought to minimize the role of theology in Judaism. This book constructs a new model for understanding Jewish theological language that emphasizes the central role of theological reflection in Judaism and the close relationship between theological reflection and religious practice in the Jewish tradition. Drawing on diverse philosophical resources, Fisher's model of Jewish theology embraces the multiple forms and functions of Jewish theological language. Fisher demonstrates the utility of this model by undertaking close readings of an early rabbinic commentary on the book of Exodus (Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael ) and a work of modern philosophical theology (Franz Rosenzweig's The Star of Redemption). These readings advance the discussion of theology in rabbinics and modern Jewish thought and provide resources for constructive Jewish theology.
Book Synopsis An Introduction to Modern Jewish Philosophy by : Claire Elise Katz
Download or read book An Introduction to Modern Jewish Philosophy written by Claire Elise Katz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Jewish is modern Jewish philosophy? The question at first appears nonsensical, until we consider that the chief issues with which Jewish philosophers have engaged, from the Enlightenment through to the late 20th century, are the standard preoccupations of general philosophical inquiry. Questions about God, reality, language, and knowledge - metaphysics and epistemology - have been of as much concern to Jewish thinkers as they have been to others. Moses Mendelssohn, for example, was a friend of Kant. Hermann Cohen's philosophy is often described as 'neo-Kantian.' Franz Rosenzweig wrote his dissertation on Hegel. And the thought of Emmanuel Levinas is indebted to Husserl. In this much-needed textbook, which surveys the most prominent thinkers of the last three centuries, Claire Katz situates modern Jewish philosophy in the wider cultural and intellectual context of its day, indicating how broader currents of British, French and German thought influenced its practitioners. But she also addresses the unique ways in which being Jewish coloured their output, suggesting that a keen sense of particularity enabled the Jewish philosophers to help define the whole modern era. Intended to be used as a core undergraduate text, the book will also appeal to anyone with an interest how some of the greatest minds of the age grappled with some of its most urgent and fascinating philosophical problems.
Book Synopsis Contemporary Jewish Thought by : Simon Noveck
Download or read book Contemporary Jewish Thought written by Simon Noveck and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
