Shai Held

Abraham Joshua Heschel

The Call of Transcendence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shai Held is Dean and Chair of Jewish Thought at Mechon Hadar, an institute for Jewish prayer, personal growth, and Jewish study which he co-founded. He is winner of a 2011 Covenant Award for excellence in Jewish education, and Newsweek has twice named him one of America's most influential rabbis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 465g
• ISBN-13: 9780253017147
• ISBN-10: 0253017149
• Artikelnr.: 41749823

Autorenporträt

Shai Held

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Wonder, Intuition, and the Path to God
2. Theological Method and Religious Anthropology: Heschel among the
Christians
3. Revelation and Co-Revelation
4. The Pathos of the Self-Transcendent God
5. "Awake, Why Sleepest Thou, O Lord?" Divine Silence and Human Protest in
Heschel's Writings
6. The Self that Transcends Itself: Heschel on Prayer
7. Enabling Immanence: Prayer in a Time of Divine Hiddenness
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index