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