Charles H. T. Lesch

Maimonides and Jewish Theocracy

The Human Hand of Divine Rule

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Theocratic movements are on the rise. But what does it actually mean for God to rule? This Element offers one answer by recovering the theocratic project of medieval Judaism's most important thinker, Moses Maimonides.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 75
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009468114
• ISBN-10: 1009468111
• Artikelnr.: 70526066

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Theocracy and the Rule of God; Introduction: The Return of Theocracy and Maimonides' Politics Reconsidered; 1. 'God's Governance in Another Way': Delegating Divine Rule in Al-F
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; 2. 'The Philosopher, Supreme Ruler, Prince, Legislator, and Imam is but a Single Idea': Al-F
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's 'First Ruler'; 3. 'Judgement is God's': Law and Philosophy in Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah; 4. 'The Holy One Has in His World Only the Four Cubits of the Law': Knowledge, Providence, and Human Agency; 5. 'God Governs this World by Way of Angels': Moses in the Guide to the Perplexed; 6. 'This Law is Divine': The Torah as 'Kingly Craft'; 7. 'Love Depends on Knowing': Imitating God; 8. 'The Human Attainment Rightly Gloried in is Ruling Them as He Does': Rule of God, Rule of the Good; Coda: Democracy and the Rule of God; References.