Isbn: 9781557787019 - thinkers and teachers of modern judaism (7 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 256 pages. writing on ffepThis unique collection of essays focuses on the recent developments in Jewish religious thinking with penetrating analyses of the teachings of the most impor tant modern Jewish religious thinkers - Buber, Baeck, Heschel, Rosenzweig, Kook, Kaplan, Soloveitchik among them - whose teachings have had a lasting influence on contemporary Jewish life. The cumulative evidence of these studies suggests t hat Judaism has remained down to the present time a vital force, as in several c rucial epochs in the past, seeking new forms of expression, facing new problems and finding new insights into its millennial struggle for an understanding of th e relationship between God and humanity.As for developments in Jewish cultur e and social philosophy - its communal life - several events have radically and sometimes tragically transformed it, to the point that, despite its unbreakable historical continuity, the Jewish identity has been abruptly altered. After the cataclysmic events of mid-century - the Holocaust, the establishment of Israel, the return of Oriental Jewry, and the loosening of the traditional religious bon ds - a scrutiny of what all this means for Judaism, which for thousands of years has kept the Jewish people united, is of vital significance not only for the Je ws and for the relationship between Israel and the Diaspora, but also for the gl obal issues of the religious predicament of our modern age. The essays contained in this volume make an important contribution to the elucidation of these probl ems, and can serve as pointers of the way. …