Judaism and Ecology: Created World and Revealed WordHava Tirosh-Samuelson Jewish ecological discourse has shown that Judaism harbors deep concern for the well-being of the natural world. However, the movement has not articulated a Jewish theology of nature, nor has it submitted the sources of Judaism to a systematic, philosophical examination. This volume intends to contribute to the nascent discourse on Judaism and ecology by clarifying diverse conceptions of nature in Jewish thought and by using the insights of Judaism to formulate a constructive Jewish theology of nature. The twenty-one contributors consider the Bible and rabbinic literature, examine the relationship between the doctrine of creation and the doctrine of revelation in the context of natural law, and wrestle with questions of nature and morality. They look at nature in the Jewish mystical tradition, and they face the challenges to Jewish environmental activism caused by the tension between the secular nature of the environmental discourse and Jewish religious commitments. |
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... idea of nature as what has come to us from Athens , which is its Hellenic pole . Some have seen the Hebraic doc- trine ( torah ) and the Hellenic idea ( eidos ) as being at odds , at least prima facie . For the Hebraic doctrine seems to ...
... idea of nature as what has come to us from Athens , which is its Hellenic pole . Some have seen the Hebraic doc- trine ( torah ) and the Hellenic idea ( eidos ) as being at odds , at least prima facie . For the Hebraic doctrine seems to ...
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... idea should not be left at such a final impasse . Historically , they have been brought together , and one has transformed the other . They have been brought together by the fact that Jerusalem conquered Athens when the West became ...
... idea should not be left at such a final impasse . Historically , they have been brought together , and one has transformed the other . They have been brought together by the fact that Jerusalem conquered Athens when the West became ...
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... idea taken up by biblically based theology intact from Greek philosophy ( especially via the Stoics ) , it is only the idea of nature itself that was taken up — and by no means intact . Natural law itself , nomos physeos — which would ...
... idea taken up by biblically based theology intact from Greek philosophy ( especially via the Stoics ) , it is only the idea of nature itself that was taken up — and by no means intact . Natural law itself , nomos physeos — which would ...
Contents
Preface | xi |
Introduction Judaism and the Natural World | xxxiii |
Constructive Jewish Theology of Nature | xxxix |
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