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 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.

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