Louis Jacobs

Religion and the Individual

A Jewish Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

Jacobs conducts a thorough survey of some of the most important instances where the individual is discussed in the Jewish religious tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 265g
• ISBN-13: 9780521050302
• ISBN-10: 0521050308
• Artikelnr.: 23366096

Autorenporträt

Louis Jacobs was Rabbi at New London Synagogue until his death in 2006. In the year of his death he was voted ""Greatest British Jew"" by a poll of Jewish Chronicle Readers conducted to mark the 350th anniversary of the entry of the Jews into England under Oliver Cromwell. His latest books, Jewish Preaching and Judaism and Theology, were both published in 2004.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of abbreviations
1. Individual significance
2. Self-realization as a religious value
3. Attitudes to life and death
4. Family relationships
5. Loving the neighbour
6. Communal obligations
7. God and the soul
8. Does a person's body belong to God?
9. Worship with the body
10. God and personal freedom
11. Immortality
12. Conclusion: a question of emphasis
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index.