| Description |
1 online resource (235 pages) |
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Value Inquiry Book Series, 197 |
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Value Inquiry Book Series, 197
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| Contents |
EDITORIAL FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; One RETURNING TO TRADITION: PARADOX OR CHALLENGE; Part One THE TENSE ENCOUNTER WITH MODERNITY; INTRODUCTION; Two SOLOVEITCHIK: JEWISH THOUGHT CONFRONTS MODERNITY; Three COMPARTMENTALIZATION: FROM ERNST SIMON TO YESHAYAHU LEIBOWITZ; Part Two THE HARMONIOUS ENCOUNTER WITH MODERNITY; Four RELIGIOUS COMMITMENT IN A SECULARIZED WORLD: ELIEZER GOLDMAN; Five DAVID HARTMAN RENEWING THE COVENANT; Part Three BETWEEN OLD AND NEW JUDAISM AS INTERPRETATION; INTRODUCTION; Six SCRIPTURE IN THE THOUGHT OF LEIBOWITZ AND SOLOVEITCHIK |
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Seven HALAKHAH IN THE THOUGHT OF LEIBOWITZ AND SOLOVEITCHIKEight ELIEZER GOLDMAN JUDAISM AS INTERPRETATION; Epilogue "MY NAME'S MY DONORS' NAME"; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INDEX |
| Summary |
This book is a first attempt to examine the thought of key contemporary Jewish thinkers on the meaning of tradition in the context of two models. The classic model assumes that tradition reflects lack of dynamism and reflectiveness, and the present's unqualified submission to the past. This view, however, is an image that the modernist ethos has ascribed to the tradition so as to remove it from modern existence. In the alternative model, a living tradition emerges as open and dynamic, developing through an ongoing dialogue between present and past. The Jewish philosophers discussed in this wor |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Tradition (Judaism)
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Tradition (Philosophy)
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Jewish philosophy.
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traditionalism.
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Jewish philosophy
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Tradition (Judaism)
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Tradition (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stein, Batya.
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| ISBN |
9789401206426 |
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9401206422 |
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