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The Lord Is My Shepard: The Theology of a Caring God »

Authors: Michael Samuel
ISBN-13: 9781568219127, ISBN-10: 1568219121
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Aronson, Jason Inc.
Date Published: October 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Michael Samuel

Book Synopsis

Timeless and inspiring, the shepherd metaphor addresses the fundamental relationship between God and man, speaking directly to questions raised by centuries of persecution. What is the nature of suffering in a just universe? How does suffering alter our perceptions of God? Rabbi Samuel explores questions of faith that are as old as the story of Job and as modern as the Holocaust.

	Preface
1	The Disappearance of a Primordial Symbol	1
2	Recovering Our Primal Images of Faith and Spirituality	9
3	The Challenge of Modernity	21
4	The Conspiracy of Silence	25
5	Overcoming Our Fragmented Images of God/World/Soul	39
6	Speaking about God - Reimagining Religious Language	69
7	The Spiritual Message of Psalm 23	105
8	The Biblical Narratives That Might Have Inspired Psalm 23	117
9	Models of Shepherding	129
10	Paradigms for a Political Spirituality	147
11	Job's Descent into Darkness - A Tale about Shepherding	163
12	From Muteness to Expressivity	201
App. 1	The Maimonides-Ibn Daud Debate about God-Talk	237
App. 2	A Brief Liturgical History of Psalm 23	243
App. 3	Psalm 23 and the Sabbath	245
App. 4	Psalm 23 and Psalm 27	249
	Bibliography	251
	Acknowledgments	259
	Index	261