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1 online resource (xii, 573 pages) |
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Preface / Steven T. Katz -- Selectors -- Jacob B. Agus: an introductory overview ; Selections / Steven T. Katz -- The ideal personality -- Contemporary issues -- Neo-Maimonism -- Part one. Jacob B. Agus as a student of modern Jewish philosophy -- Selections and prefatory remarks / David Novak -- The common core of modern Jewish philosophy -- The nearness of God -- Rav Kuk, an appreciation -- Part two. Jacob B. Agus as a student of medieval Jewish philosophy and mysticism -- Selections and prefatory remarks / David R. Blumenthal -- The rise of Jewish rationalism -- The Qabbalah -- Part three. Jacob B. Agus and Jewish-Christian dialogue: a view from the Christian side -- Selections and prefatory remarks / Eugene J. Fisher -- Judaism and the New Testament -- Perspectives for the study of the Book of Acts -- A new kind of Christian-Jewish disputation -- Part four. Jacob Agus' ideology of American Judaism: American Jews or Jewish Americans? -- Selections and prefatory remarks / Milton R. Konvitz -- Who we are -- Assimilation, integration, segregation: the road to the future -- Jewish self-image in the post-war world -- Part five. The concept of God in Jacob Agus' theology -- Selection and prefatory remarks / William E. Kaufman -- The idea of God -- Part six. Jacob B. Agus on the meaning of Jewish history and experience -- Selections and prefatory remarks / Neil Gillman -- Epilogue to the evolution of Jewish thought -- The concept of Israel -- Part seven. Jacob B. Agus and the conservative movement -- Selections and prefatory remarks / Mordecai Waxman -- Reevaluation of the "Responsumon on the Sabbath" -- Birth control: a dissent -- Law in conservative Judaism -- A theological foundation for the Halachah -- Part eight. Jewish law as standards -- Selection and prefatory remarks / Elliot N. Dorff -- The conservative movement -- Part nine. Jacob B. Agus as pulpit rabbi -- Selections and prefatory remarks / Mark Loeb -- Religion and nationalism -- The covenant concept: particularistic, pluralistic, or futuristic? -- Bibliography of the works of Jacob B. Agus |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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"Bibliography of the works of Jacob B. Agus": pages 566-573 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Agus, Jacob B. (Jacob Bernard), 1911-1986.
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| SUBJECT |
Agus, Jacob B. (Jacob Bernard), 1911-1986
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Agus, Jacob B. (Jacob Bernard), 1911-1986 fast |
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Jewish philosophy.
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Judaism.
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Judaism.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
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Jewish philosophy
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Judaism
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dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionnaires.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Katz, Steven T., 1944-
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| ISBN |
9780814763551 |
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0814763553 |
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