Jonathan Sacks

To Heal a Fractured World

The Ethics of Responsibility

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Produktbeschreibung

Rabbi Sacks argues that preoccupation with self is a mistake and that ethics are concerned with the life we live together. With a new foreword by Rowan Williams.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm
• ISBN-13: 9781399420907
• ISBN-10: 1399420909
• Artikelnr.: 71591836

Autorenporträt

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, who died in late 2020, was Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Britain and the Commonwealth. He was the author of numerous books, including Celebrating Life, From Optimism to Hope , The Persistence of Faith and The Dignity of Difference, for which he won a Grawemeyer Award in Religion.

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.