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Author : Shimʻon Gershon Rozenberg
Publisher : Maggid
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1592644643
Judaism in the Postmodern Age.
Author : Ephraim Chamiel
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781644693827
The present book is a sequel to Ephraim Chamiel’s two previous works The Middle Way and The Dual Truth—studies dedicated to the “middle” trend in modern Jewish thought, that is, those positions that sought to combine tradition and modernity, and offered a variety of approaches for contending with the tension between science and revelation and between reason and religion. The present book explores contemporary Jewish thinkers who have adopted one of these integrated approaches—namely the dialectical approach. Some of these thinkers maintain that the aforementioned tension—the rift within human consciousness between intellect and emotion, mind and heart—can be mended. Others, however, think that the dialectic between the two poles of this tension is inherently irresolvable, a view reminiscent of the medieval “dual truth” approach. Some thinkers are unclear on this point, and those who study them debate whether or not they successfully resolved the tension and offered a means of reconciliation. The author also offers his views on these debates. This book explores the dialectical approaches of Rav Kook, Rav Soloveitchik, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Samuel Hugo Bergman, Leo Strauss, Ernst Simon, Emil Fackenheim, Rabbi Mordechai Breuer, his uncle Isaac Breuer, Tamar Ross, Rabbi Shagar, Moshe Meir, Micah Goodman and Elchanan Shilo. It also discusses the interpretations of these thinkers offered by scholars such as Michael Rosenak, Avinoam Rosenak, Eliezer Schweid, Aviezer Ravitzky, Avi Sagi, Binyamin Ish-Shalom, Ehud Luz, Dov Schwartz, Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, Lawrence Kaplan, and Haim Rechnitzer. The author questions some of these approaches and offers ideas of his own. This study concludes that many scholars bore witness to the dialectical tension between reason and revelation; only some believed that a solution was possible. That being said, and despite the paradoxical nature of the dual truth approach (which maintains that two contradictory truths exist and we must live with both of them in this world until a utopian future or the advent of the Messiah), increasing numbers of thinkers today are accepting it. In doing so, they are eschewing delusional and apologetic views such as the identicality and compartmental approaches that maintain that tensions and contradictions are unacceptable.
Author : Ethan B. Katz,Sergey Dolgopolski,Elisha Ancselovits
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000969566
This book re-thinks the relationship between the world of the traditional Jewish study hall (the Beit Midrash) and the academy: Can these two institutions overcome their vast differences? Should they attempt to do so? If not, what could two methods of study seen as diametrically opposed possibly learn from one another? How might they help each other reconceive their interrelationship, themselves, and the broader study of Jews and Judaism? This book begins with three distinct approaches to these challenges. The chapters then follow the approaches through an interdisciplinary series of pioneering case studies that reassess a range of topics including religion and pluralism in Jewish education; pain, sexual consent, and ethics in the Talmud; the place of reason and devotion among Jewish thinkers as diverse as Moses Mendelssohn, Jacob Taubes, Sarah Schenirer, Ibn Chiquitilla, Yair Ḥayim Bacharach, and the Rav Shagar; and Jewish law as a response to the post-Holocaust landscape. The authors are scholars of rabbinics, history, linguistics, philosophy, law, and education, many of whom also have traditional religious training or ordination. The result is a book designed for learned scholars, non-specialists, and students of varying backgrounds, and one that is sure to spark debate in the university, the Beit Midrash, and far beyond.
Author : Tracy Liller
Publisher : Elm Hill
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400324989
This book will have a wide range of interested readers. It has a strong God-faith based element for Christian bookstores, as well as the Amish community. It has a story line that will appeal to all ages and is written in an easy to understand format for young readers as well. Many will relate to the traumatic auto accident while others empathize with the abusive background of the author. There will be those who have wronged others and seek forgiveness, and still others who have been wronged needing to forgive. The life lessons in this simple book far outreach what any of us can really foresee. Law enforcement officers will enjoy the realities of the job they are tasked with on a daily basis being portrayed, and courtroom employees will as well. Medical professionals will relate to the organized chaos of the trauma unit. Parents, grandparents, and children can all put themselves in the place of one losing a family member. People everywhere in every walk of life think “That could’ve been me” in many of the scenarios occurring in this book making it extremely relatable to everyone. The uplifting ending leaves its readers on an emotional high wishing to read it again and again.
Author : Diane Hastings
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781664217881
This book is written for those like me, who have been in a spiritual battle of tests and trials that seemed to be long and drawn out. You thought you were coming out when all of a sudden you sunk deeper into the test. Your faith was shaken and you felt like things were never going to get better. You begin to live with just getting by day by day, and expecting that God was soon to come and you didn’t have long here on earth. You were settling with what you were dealing with. Beloved God has great things in store for you. You don’t have to be complacent or taken down by anyone. You are the light of the world. You are the child of a king. 1 Corinthians 2:9 KJV says “ But as it is written, eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” So, stand up, speak the word of God, study the word of God and trust the word of God. He is a faithful and loving God. He is ready to restore your faith and trust in him.
Author : Joseph P. Schultz
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532692680
Stepping Stones to a Higher Vision examines the development of religious consciousness from religion to spirituality to mysticism. This developmental path imaginatively described as “stepping stones” in the title of the book and as “elevators of religion” in chapter one, has its rewards but also its dangers and pitfalls. Intended for the non-specialist lay person interested in religion, as well as the scholar, the book focuses on Jewish tradition and its sources (Hebrew Bible, Talmud-Midrash, and Kabbalah), but in a broad cross-cultural interdisciplinary context. Ritual, prayer, including meditation and contemplation, ethics and morality, religious leadership, and the afterlife are analyzed in the context of sociology, science, and the history of religion.
Author : Miriam Feldmann Kaye
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789624236
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.
Author : Leonard J. Greenspoon
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781612496047
Next Year in Jerusalem recognizes that Jews have often experienced or imaged periods of exile and return in their long tradition. The fourteen papers in this collection examine this phenomenon from different approaches, genres, and media. They cover the period from biblical times through today. Among the exiles highlighted are the Babylonian Exile (sixth century BCE), the exile after the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple (70 CE), and the years after the Crusaders (tenth century CE). Events of return include the aftermath of the Babylonian Exile (fifth century BCE), the centuries after the Temple’s destruction (first and second CE), and the years of the establishment of the modern State of Israel (1948 CE). In each instance authors pay close attention to the historical settings, the literature created by Jews and others, and the theological explanations offered (typically, this was seen as divine punishment or reward for Israel’s behavior). The entire volume is written authoritatively and accessibly.
Author : Adam Zachary Newton
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780823283965
This book tells the story of a Jewish Studies that hasn’t fully happened—at least not yet. Newton asks what we mean when we say “Jewish Studies”—and when we imagine it not as mere amalgam but as a project. Jewish Studies offers a unique perspective from which to view the horizon of the academic humanities because, although it arrived belatedly, it has spanned a range of disciplinary locations and configurations, from an “origin story” in nineteenth-century historicism and philology, to the emancipatory politics of the Enlightenment, to the ethnicity-driven pluralism of the postwar decades, to more recent configurations within an interdisciplinary cultural studies. The conflicted allegiances with respect to traditions, disciplines, divisions, stakes, and stakeholders represent the structural and historical situation of the field, as it comes into contact with the humanities more broadly. At once a literary and philosophical thinker, Newton deploys a tableau of texts in concert with an ensemble of vivid, elastic tropes not only to theorize Jewish Studies but also to reimagine it as an agent of that potency Jacques Derrida calls “leverage”—a force multiplier for the field’s multiple possibilities. In refiguring a Jewish Studies to come, the book intervenes in a broader discourse about the challenge of professing disciplinary knowledges while promoting transit across their boundaries. Jewish Studies as Counterlife further amplifies Newton’s career-long articulation of the dialogic as the staging ground of ethical encounter.
Author : Richard LaFountain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 098588794X
A pastor's story of his daughter's sudden death and his subsequent loss of faith. The author tells the story and process of being restored to faith again, providing hope for those who have lost their faith.
Author : Andrew D. Thrasher,Austin M. Freeman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978712195
Theology, Fantasy, and the Imagination offers analyses of the theological, philosophical, and religious imagination found in fantasy literature, the theological imagination, and table-top games. Part I offers an invocation to the study through a theological reflection of the “old magic.” Part II analyzes classical Christian fantasy—ranging from dogmatic theological reflection on the fantastic imagination to analyses of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Part III analyzes the post-Christian turn in fantasy after about 1960 through today—featuring methodological, theological, and philosophical essays that reflect a movement beyond Christianity in the fantasy literature and writings of Rabbi Shagar, Ursula le Guin, Terry Pratchett, Robert Jordan and David Eddings, and Brandon Sanderson and Orson Scott Card. Part IV closes with two analyses of the religious and philosophical dimensions of table-top games, including Dungeons and Dragons and Magic: the Gathering. Theology, Fantasy, and the Imagination offers astute analyses of how theological fantasy actually is by articulating the religious, philosophical, and theological dimensions of the fantastic imagination.
Author : Alan Slomowitz,Alison Feit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351718486
Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism explores the often incommensurable and irreconcilable beliefs and understandings of sexuality and gender in the Orthodox Jewish community from psychoanalytic, rabbinic, feminist, and queer perspectives. The book explores how seemingly irreconcilable differences might be resolved. The book is divided into two separate but related sections. The first highlights the divide between the psychoanalytic, academic, and traditional Orthodox Jewish perspectives on sexual identity and orientation, and the acute psychic and social challenges faced by gay and lesbian members of the Orthodox Jewish world. The contributors ask us to engage with them in a dialogue that allows for authentic conversation. The second section focuses on gender identity, especially as experienced by the Orthodox transgender members of the community. It also highlights the divide between theories that see gender as fluid and traditional Judaism that sees gender as strictly binary. The contributors write about their views and experiences from both sides of the divide. They ask us to engage in true authentic dialogue about these complex and crucial emotional and religious challenges. Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as members and leaders of Jewish communities working with LGBTQ issues.
Author : Miri Freud-Kandel
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781802071160
For Louis Jacobs, the quest—the process of engaging with and thinking about Jewish faith—was a lifelong pursuit. He offered a model in the 1960s, a period characterized by general religious crisis, of an observant, committed, but intellectually curious Judaism that empowered individual seekers to address challenges to faith. In Orthodox Judaism at the time a battle was under way for religious control. Generating a widespread controversy in British Jewry known as the ‘Jacobs Affair’, his thought offers a lens for examining the trajectory of Orthodoxy. In a contemporary context marked by the changing cultural and intellectual concerns of a ‘post-secular’ age, the focus of some of these debates over religious control has shifted. Yet Jacobs’ emphasis on a personal quest is as relevant as ever, perhaps more so. This first book-length analysis of his theology unpacks the building blocks of his thought. It argues that, despite its particularities and limitations, his approach can provide a powerful model for contemporary religious seekers in the context of a growing impetus away from established, denominationally bound forms of religion. Many orthodox believers across a range of faiths continue to prefer the certainty of unquestionable religious truth claims rather than pursuing a subjective search for religious meaning. For those seeking alternative models for the contemporary Jewish quest, a reconsideration of Jacobs’ theology can offer valuable tools.
Author : Nanette V. Larson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1646451252
In her stunningly transparent memoir, From Shattered to Restored, Nanette Larson shares her journey from a life of constant hopelessness and despair, deep depression, crippling anxiety, and suicidality, to one full of victorious hope and purpose. In this life-changing Restoration Guide, Nanette expands on the faith and recovery principles first shared in her memoir to help readers develop a deep and abiding relationship with God as they recover hope and discover purpose in their own lives. This companion Restoration Guide offers practical application of faith and recovery principles for small groups and individuals. Each chapter mirrors its respective chapter in the memoir, utilizing study questions, points for reflection, prayers, pertinent Scripture, and more. Through the teaching and interactive prompts in the Restoration Guide, the reader will learn how to apply four essential principles of restoration that are continuously woven throughout the journey of recovery and discovery: 1.Abide in Christ. 2.Cast down every high thing that exalts itself above the knowledge of God. 3.Renew your mind through the Word of God. 4.Yield to the Holy Spirit. Position your heart for the Holy Spirit to do the real work of recovery and discovery as you open the pages of your heart before God with the pages of the Restoration Guide.
Author : Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz
Publisher : CCAR Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780881233230
Pirkei Avot is the urtext of Jewish practical wisdom. In many ways, the words of Pirkei Avot were the first recorded manifesto of social justice in Western civilization. This commentary explores text through a lens of contemporary social justice and moral philosophy, engaging both classical commentators and modern thinkers.
