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Body Of Faith » (2nd Edition)

Book cover image of Body Of Faith by Michael Wyschogrod

Authors: Michael Wyschogrod
ISBN-13: 9781568219103, ISBN-10: 1568219105
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: January 1996
Edition: 2nd Edition

Author Biography: Michael Wyschogrod

Book Synopsis

The original edition of this book describes it as an attempt to develop a comprehensive understanding of traditional Judaism in conversation with contemporary philosophical and Christian thought. This book has been praised by many as one of the most exciting and inspiring books of Jewish theology to be published in a long time.

	Preface to the Second Edition
	Introduction
Ch. 1	A Partial Knowledge	1
1	Light and Knowledge	1
2	Biblical Reason	3
3	A Dark Reason	7
4	The Indwelling of God	11
5	Failure	14
6	Sacrifices	17
7	Israel as Sacrifice	21
8	Permitted Knowledge	29
9	Postbiblical Options	34
Ch. 2	A Chosen Nation	40
1	Jewish Philosophy	40
2	Marrano Philosophers	43
3	Jewish and Christian Philosophy	52
4	Love and Election	58
5	National Election	65
6	Two Traditions	70
7	Reformation Thought and Judaism	75
Ch. 3	The Personality of God	82
1	God as Person	82
2	God as Thou	86
3	Personhood and Emanation	91
4	The Body	96
5	Some Traits of God	100
6	Psychological Dynamics	104
7	God and Man	108
8	A Partner in the Human Encounter	113
9	Love	119
Ch. 4	Created Being	125
1	Being and Existence	125
2	Nonbeing and the One	130
3	Heidegger and the A Priori	133
4	God and Being	137
5	Ontology and Human Being	143
6	The Lord of Being	149
7	Deontology	155
8	God beyond Being	160
9	Created Being	164
10	Demythologization	169
Ch. 5	Ethics and Jewish Existence	173
1	Jewish Thought	173
2	Jewish Thought and the Jewish People	174
3	A Carnal Election	175
4	Historicity	177
5	Biblical and Rabbinic Ethics	179
6	The Ethical Secedes	181
7	Jewish Disobedience	182
8	The Law	185
9	Insecurity	187
10	The Centrality of the Ethical	190
11	A Nonautonomous Ethic	191
12	The Ethical and Law	195
13	Self-Alienation in Law	197
14	God and Law	199
15	What Is the Law?	201
16	The Particular Situation	204
17	The Law and the Silence of God	208
18	God, Torah, and Israel	211
19	The Ethical and the Universal	215
20	The Ethical and History	218
21	Ethics, Cult, and Land	222
Ch. 6	The Unrealized	224
1	Expecting the Unexpected	224
2	Process Philosophy	226
3	The Present	227
4	Renewal	230
5	History	233
6	History and Law	236
7	The Jewish People	238
8	Israel	243
9	Art	247
10	Family	252
11	Messianic Judaism	254
	Notes	257
	Index	263