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"A profound and important book... the best book on the Holocaust interpreted by a theologian of Judaism". -- Jacob Neusner
Author : Arthur Allen Cohen
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN :
"A profound and important book... the best book on the Holocaust interpreted by a theologian of Judaism". -- Jacob Neusner
Author : Arthur Allen Cohen
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 9780814322819
A collection of essays, all published previously. The following deal with antisemitism:
Author : Daniel H. Frank
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415168601
A Chomprehensive anthology of classic writings on Jewish philosophy from the Bible to postmodernism.
Author : Larry D. Bouchard
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 35,4 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0271039795
The book moves in a nonreductive way between literary and theological criticism to show how drama and religious thought discern the experience of evil. &"Tragic method&" refers to how tragic art functions as inquiry; &"tragic theology&" refers to how drama and theology render in thematic or symbolic form certain irreducible dimensions of evil and negativity. Bouchard defines no single tragic method or any single view of evil but searches for the distinctive interplay of tragic method of theology in each dramatist. The work opens by scrutinizing certain important interpretations of Greek tragedy. Paul Ricoeur's interpretation of &"the Wicked God and the Tragic Vision&" receives major focus, as does Sophocles, who as a tragedian dramatized the action of inquiry and interpretation. Bouchard then examines Augustine's views of evil and sin, Reinhold Niebuhr's critique of the ironies of history, and Tillich's conceptions of the demonic. By interpreting tragedy in terms of sin or the effects of sin, each theologian resists implications in his own thought pointing to a less resolvable tragic theology. And yet these theologians also contribute very creative understandings of the irreducible character of evil and tragic experience. Substantive and original readings of three playwrights are offered: Rolf Hochhuth's tragedy of vocation, The Deputy, Robert Lowell's trilogy of American historical blindness, The Old Glory, and Peter Shaffer's dreams of tragic awareness and accountability in Equus and Amadeus, revealing new permutations of the irreducibility of evil in contemporary Christian and Jewish religious thinkers who may be helpful in this task, and concludes with a description of the experience of perplexed thought, self-critical in view of tragedy's witness to irreducibility of evil.
Author : Michael L. Morgan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0253014778
Over the centuries, the messianic tradition has provided the language through which modern Jewish philosophers, socialists, and Zionists envisioned a utopian future. Michael L. Morgan, Steven Weitzman, and an international group of leading scholars ask new questions and provide new ways of thinking about this enduring Jewish idea. Using the writings of Gershom Scholem, which ranged over the history of messianic belief and its conflicted role in the Jewish imagination, these essays put aside the boundaries that divide history from philosophy and religion to offer new perspectives on the role and relevance of messianism today.
Author : Arthur Allen Cohen
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Holocaust (Jewish theology).
ISBN :
Author : R. Otto
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0195002105
Fundamentally an inquiry into the non-rational factor in the idea of the divine and its relation to the rational.
Author : Ralph Keen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 30,87 MB
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441118276
Exile and Restoration in Jewish Thought presents the history of an idea originating at the intersection of Judaic piety and the social history of the Jews: faith in a protective sovereign deity amid contrary conditions. Exiled primordially (Eden), during the Patriarchal era, in the sixth century bce, and from the first century to the twentieth, the Jewish experience of alienation has been the historical backdrop against which affirmations of divine benevolence have been constructed. While histories of Jewish thought have tended to accentuate the speculative creativity of medieval and modern Jewish philosophers, the intellectual tradition can come into focus only with attention to these thinkers' understanding of diaspora and persecution. Ralph Keen describes the distinguishing feature of Jewish thought as a religious hermeneutic in which the primitive promise made to Abraham is preserved not just as a pious memory but as a certain hope for eventual restoration. Intended for readers with some familiarity with the history of philosophy, this book offers the historical context necessary for understanding the distinctively Judaic character of this tradition of thought, and elucidates the role of religious experience in the long process of negotiating between adversity and expectation.
Author : Dan Merkur
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,10 MB
Release : 1999-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791440643
Merkur proposes an alternative to the traditional psychoanalytic explanation of mystical experiences as regression to the solipsism of earliest infancy. He does this by viewing unitive thinking as a line of cognitive development, and mystical moments as creative inspirations on unitive topics. Utilizing classical self-reports by Christian, Jewish, and Muslim mystics, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, and modern Western peak experiences, Merkur argues that experiences of mystical union are manifestations of a broader category of psychological processes that manifest in scientific and moral thought, as well as in mysticism. Unconscious as well as conscious, unitive thinking is sometimes realistic and sometimes fantastic, in patterns that are consistent with cognitive development in general. Mystical moments of unitive thinking may be considered moments of creative inspiration that happen to make use of unitive ideas. Building on the psychoanalytic object-relations theory that the self is always in relationship with an object, Merkur argues that the solipsism of some varieties of mystical union always implies unconscious ideas of a love object who is transcendent.
Author : Wayne Allen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 2021-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0827618689
The most comprehensive book on the topic, Thinking about Good and Evil traces the most salient Jewish ideas about why innocent people seem to suffer, why evil individuals seem to prosper, and God’s role in such matters of (in)justice, from antiquity to the present. Starting with the Bible and Apocrypha, Rabbi Wayne Allen takes us through the Talmud; medieval Jewish philosophers and Jewish mystical sources; the Ba’al Shem Tov and his disciples; early modern thinkers such as Spinoza, Mendelssohn, and Luzzatto; and, finally, modern thinkers such as Cohen, Buber, Kaplan, and Plaskow. Each chapter analyzes individual thinkers’ arguments and synthesizes their collective ideas on the nature of good and evil and questions of justice. Allen also exposes vastly divergent Jewish thinking about the Holocaust: traditionalist (e.g., Ehrenreich), revisionist (e.g., Rubenstein, Jonas), and deflective (e.g., Soloveitchik, Wiesel). Rabbi Allen’s engaging, accessible volume illuminates well-known, obscure, and novel Jewish solutions to the problem of good and evil.