Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: EssaysDr. Abraham Joshua Heschel, one of the foremost Jewish savants of our time, was internationally known as scholar, author, activist, and theologian. This first collection of his essays--compiled, edited, and with an introduction by his daughter, Susannah Heschel, Abba Hillel Silver Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland--is arranged in five groups ("Existence and Celebration," "No Time for Neutrality," "Toward a Just Society," "No Religion Is an Island," and "The Holy Dimension"). They include a tribute to Reinhold Niebuhr and a discussion of moral theologian Bernard Häring. An appendix contains a transcript of Carl Stern's famous television interview with Heschel, recorded shortly before his death. -- |
Contents
What Is It? | 3 |
The Moment at Sinai | 12 |
Hasidism as a New Approach to Torah | 33 |
Israel as Memory | 40 |
A Time for Renewal | 47 |
To Save a Soul | 54 |
The Meaning of Repentance | 68 |
No Time for Neutrality | 75 |
The Reasons for My Involvement in the Peace Movement | 224 |
A Prayer for Peace | 230 |
Choose Life | 251 |
On Prayer | 257 |
The God of Israel and Christian Renewal | 268 |
What Ecumenism Is | 286 |
Reinhold Niebuhr | 301 |
The Holy Dimension | 318 |
The Spirit of Jewish Prayer | 100 |
Toward an Understanding of Halacha | 127 |
Yom Kippur | 146 |
Jewish Theology | 154 |
The Mystical Element in Judaism | 164 |
A Preface to an Understanding of Revelation | 185 |
God Torah and Israel | 191 |
The Meaning of This War World War II | 209 |
The Moral Dilemma of the Space Age | 216 |
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