Contemporary Covenantal Thought : Interpretations of Covenant in the Thought of David Hartman and Eugene Borowitz.
Refusing to accept anything but ever-increasing levels of human responsibility within a religious framework, covenantal thinkers audaciously suggest that the covenant empowers humanity as it binds and inhibits divinity. This is a reformulation of recurrent issues within the Jewish tradition, and one...
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2011
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One. Introduction: The Parameters of Covenantal Thought
- Chapter Two. American Jewish Theology and Society in the Post-Holocaust Period
- Chapter Three. Covenantal Thought: Its Sources and Contexts
- Chapter Four. Contemporary Jewish Philosophy's Covenantal Framework The Autonomous Thrust in Judaism
- Chapter. Five Covenantal Ethic s and Covenantal Law
- Chapter Six. The Boundaries of Covenantal Responsibility: Messianism, the Holocaust, and Historical Progress
- Chapter Seven. Conclusions The Achievements and Problematic s of Contemporary Covenantal Thought
- Glossary of Hebrew Terms
- Bibliography
- INDEX
- CITATIONS INDEX
