Author: Kaufmann Kohler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judaism
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Jewish Theology
Author: Kaufmann Kohler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judaism
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judaism
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Jewish Theology
Author: Kaufmann Kohler
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Judaism
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Judaism
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Jews as a Chosen People
Author: S. Leyla Gurkan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134037074
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The concept of the Jews as a chosen people is a key element of the Jewish faith and identity. This book explores the idea of chosenness from the ancient world, through modernity and into the Post-Holocaust era. Analysing a vast corpus of biblical, ancient, rabbinic and modern Jewish literature, the author seeks to give a better understanding of this central doctrine of the Jewish religion. She shows that although the idea of chosenness has been central to Judaism and Jewish self-definition, it has not been carried to the present day in the same form. Instead it has gone through constant change, depending on who is employing it, against what sort of background, and for what purpose. Surveying the different and sometimes conflicting interpretations of the doctrine of chosenness that appear in Ancient, Modern, and Post-Holocaust periods, the dominant themes of ‘Holiness’, ‘Mission’, and ‘Survival’ are identified in each respective period. The theological, philosophical, and sociological dimensions of the question of Jewish chosenness are thus examined in their historical context, as responses to the challenges of Christianity, Modernity, and the Holocaust in particular. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Jewish Studies, the Holocaust, religion and theology.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134037074
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The concept of the Jews as a chosen people is a key element of the Jewish faith and identity. This book explores the idea of chosenness from the ancient world, through modernity and into the Post-Holocaust era. Analysing a vast corpus of biblical, ancient, rabbinic and modern Jewish literature, the author seeks to give a better understanding of this central doctrine of the Jewish religion. She shows that although the idea of chosenness has been central to Judaism and Jewish self-definition, it has not been carried to the present day in the same form. Instead it has gone through constant change, depending on who is employing it, against what sort of background, and for what purpose. Surveying the different and sometimes conflicting interpretations of the doctrine of chosenness that appear in Ancient, Modern, and Post-Holocaust periods, the dominant themes of ‘Holiness’, ‘Mission’, and ‘Survival’ are identified in each respective period. The theological, philosophical, and sociological dimensions of the question of Jewish chosenness are thus examined in their historical context, as responses to the challenges of Christianity, Modernity, and the Holocaust in particular. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Jewish Studies, the Holocaust, religion and theology.
Reform Judaism and Darwin
Author: Daniel Langton
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110664119
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Darwin provoked Jewish as well as Christian thinkers so that many felt obliged to establish oppositional, alternative, synthetic, or complimentary models relating Jewish religion to his theory of natural selection. This book examines a range of leading nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American progressive Jewish thinkers, with the primary focus being rabbis Kohler, Wise, Hirsch, Krauskopf, and Hahn, although many others are covered. Key themes include the widespread commitment to universal evolutionism, that is, the application of biological evolutionary theory to other realms (e.g. history, religion, cosmic), and the particular fascination with the evolution of ethical systems within human societies, bearing in mind mankind’s bestial origins and the new challenges for understanding religious authority and revelation. It is argued that Reform Jewish discussions about the nature of God have been more profoundly shaped by engagement with evolutionary theory than has been recognized before, and that evolutionary thought provides the key framework for understanding Reform Judaism itself. The precise nature of Jewish Reform engagement with Christian proponents of theistic evolution are important, as are their interest in alternative evolutionists to Darwin, such as Spencer and Haeckel.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110664119
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Darwin provoked Jewish as well as Christian thinkers so that many felt obliged to establish oppositional, alternative, synthetic, or complimentary models relating Jewish religion to his theory of natural selection. This book examines a range of leading nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American progressive Jewish thinkers, with the primary focus being rabbis Kohler, Wise, Hirsch, Krauskopf, and Hahn, although many others are covered. Key themes include the widespread commitment to universal evolutionism, that is, the application of biological evolutionary theory to other realms (e.g. history, religion, cosmic), and the particular fascination with the evolution of ethical systems within human societies, bearing in mind mankind’s bestial origins and the new challenges for understanding religious authority and revelation. It is argued that Reform Jewish discussions about the nature of God have been more profoundly shaped by engagement with evolutionary theory than has been recognized before, and that evolutionary thought provides the key framework for understanding Reform Judaism itself. The precise nature of Jewish Reform engagement with Christian proponents of theistic evolution are important, as are their interest in alternative evolutionists to Darwin, such as Spencer and Haeckel.
The Maccabæan
The United States Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2212
Book Description
Coming to Terms with America
Author: Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0827615116
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Culling the finest thinking of renowned historian Jonathan D. Sarna, Coming to Terms with America examines how Jews have long “straddled two civilizations,” endeavoring to be both Jewish and American at once, from the American Revolution to today.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0827615116
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Culling the finest thinking of renowned historian Jonathan D. Sarna, Coming to Terms with America examines how Jews have long “straddled two civilizations,” endeavoring to be both Jewish and American at once, from the American Revolution to today.
The United States Catalog
Author: Eleanor E. Hawkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2222
Book Description
The United States Catalog Supplement, January 1918-June 1921
Author: Eleanor E. Hawkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
The United States Catalog; Books in Print January 1, 1912
Author: H.W. Wilson Company
Publisher: Minneapolis ; New York : H.W. Wilson
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2174
Book Description
Publisher: Minneapolis ; New York : H.W. Wilson
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2174
Book Description