A Living Covenant: The Innovative Spirit in Traditional JudaismArgues that Judaism is founded on a relationship between man and God based on respect, responsibility, an reverence, discusses traditions of submission and self-assertion, and examines the role of God in human history. |
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... regarding the ontological uniqueness of the Jewish peo- ple . I do not subscribe to the view that a serious commitment to the God of Israel and Torah requires one to believe that the Jewish people mediate the only authentic way for the ...
... regarding the ontological uniqueness of the Jewish peo- ple . I do not subscribe to the view that a serious commitment to the God of Israel and Torah requires one to believe that the Jewish people mediate the only authentic way for the ...
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... regarding the ultimate direction of history . Mitzvot are significant not because they point to or make possible a future redemption , but for the quality of life they make possible in the present . Human finitude and the sense of being ...
... regarding the ultimate direction of history . Mitzvot are significant not because they point to or make possible a future redemption , but for the quality of life they make possible in the present . Human finitude and the sense of being ...
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... regarding divinity . From a modern perspective , knowledge of the world of nature is religiously indifferent . This modern episte- mological framework , however , cannot be used to understand Mai- monides . It is not his world . For him ...
... regarding divinity . From a modern perspective , knowledge of the world of nature is religiously indifferent . This modern episte- mological framework , however , cannot be used to understand Mai- monides . It is not his world . For him ...
Contents
Part One THE HUMAN BEING IN JUDAISM | 19 |
Within Judaism | 42 |
Approach to Prayer | 150 |
Copyright | |
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A Living Covenant: The Innovative Spirit in Traditional Judaism David Hartman No preview available - 1998 |
A Living Covenant: The Innovative Spirit in Traditional Judaism David Hartman No preview available - 1998 |
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