Ephraim Chamiel

Between Religion and Reason (Part II) (eBook, ePUB)

The Position against Contradiction between Reason and Revelation in Contemporary Jewish Thought from Eliezer Goldman to Jonathan Sacks

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is dedicated to an analysis of the writings of modern religious Jewish thinkers who adopted a neo-fundamentalist, illusionary, apologetic approach, opposing the notion that there may sometimes be a contradiction between reason and revelation. The book deals with the thought of Eliezer Goldman, Norman Lamm, David Hartman, Aharon Lichtenstein, Jonathan Sacks, and Michael Abraham. According to these thinkers, it is possible to resolve all of the difficulties that arise from the encounter between religion and science, between reason and revelation, between the morality of halakhah and Western morality, between academic scholarship and tradition, and between scientific discoveries and statements found in the Torah. This position runs counter to the stance of other Jewish thinkers who espouse a different, more daring approach. According to the latter view, irresolvable contradictions between reason and faith sometimes face the modern Jewish believer, who must reconcile himself to these two conflicting truths and learn to live with them. This dialectic position was discussed in Between Religion and Reason, Part I (Academic Studies Press, 2020). The present volume, Part II, completes the discussion of this topic. This book concludes a trilogy of works by the author dealing with modern Jewish thought that attempts to integrate tradition and modernity. The first in the series was The Middle Way (Academic Studies Press, 2014), followed by The Dual Truth (Academic Studies Press, 2018).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781644695722
• Artikelnr.: 61248908

Autorenporträt

Dr. Ephraim Chamiel holds a doctorate in Jewish thought from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He currently researches Jewish thought in the modern era.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Translator¿s Note
Introduction
Chapter One
Chapter Two: Dialectical Approaches in the Background: Rav Kook as
Interpreted by Avinoam Rosenak
Chapter Three: Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik: His Writings and the
Interpretations of His Thought
Chapter Four: Professor Samuel Hugo Bergman
Chapter Five: Rabbi Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel
Chapter Six: Professor Leo Strauss and his Commentator Haim Rechnitzer
Chapter Seven: Professor Akiva Ernst Simon
Chapter Eight: Rabbi Professor Emil Fackenheim
Chapter Nine: Rabbi Mordechai Breuer and his Uncle Rabbi Dr. Isaac Breuer
Chapter Ten: Professor Tamar Ross
Chapter Eleven: Rabbi Shimon Gershon Rosenberg (Shagar)
Chapter Twelve: Dr. Moshe Meir
Chapter Thirteen: Dr. Micah Goodman
Chapter Fourteen: Dr. Elhanan Shilo
Chapter Fifteen: Summary and Conclusions
Afterword
Bibliography