Jonathan Sacks

To Heal a Fractured World

The Ethics of Responsibility

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Produktbeschreibung

One of the most respected religious thinkers of our time makes an impassioned plea for the return of religion to its true purpose--as a partnership with God in the work of ethical and moral living.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 205mm x 131mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 307g
• ISBN-13: 9780805211962
• ISBN-10: 0805211969
• Artikelnr.: 21438663

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Sacks has been Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth since 1991 and has received honorary degrees from universities around the world. He is the award-winning author of a dozen previous books, writes frequently for The Times (London) and other periodicals, and is heard regularly on the BBC. Rabbi Sacks was knighted in 2005. He lives in London.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Part 1: The Call to Responsibility
1 The Ethics of Responsibility
2 Faith as Protest
3 Charity as Justice
4 Love as Deed
5 Sanctifying the Name
6 Mending the World
7 Like a Single Soul
8 The Kindness of Strangers
9 Responsibility for Society
Part 2: The Theology of Responsibility
10 The Birth of Responsibility
11 Divine Initiative, Human Initiative
12 The Holy and the Good
13 The Monotheistic Imagination
14 The Faith of God
15 Redeeming Evil
Part 3: The Responsible Life
16 Transforming Suffering
17 The Chaos Theory of Virtue
18 The Kind of Person We Are
19 Who Am I?
20 On Dreams and Responsibilities
Index

Rezensionen

Jonathan Sacks is one of the most eminent religious scholars of our time and his book should interest Jews and non-Jews alike.