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The essential Agus : the writings of Jacob B. Agus /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Agus, Jacob B. (Jacob Bernard), 1911-1986
Otros Autores: Katz, Steven T., 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©1997.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface / Steven T. Katz
  • Selectors
  • Jacob B. Agus: an introductory overview ; Selections / Steven T. Katz
  • The ideal personality
  • Contemporary issues
  • Neo-Maimonism
  • Part one. Jacob B. Agus as a student of modern Jewish philosophy
  • Selections and prefatory remarks / David Novak
  • The common core of modern Jewish philosophy
  • The nearness of God
  • Rav Kuk, an appreciation
  • Part two. Jacob B. Agus as a student of medieval Jewish philosophy and mysticism
  • Selections and prefatory remarks / David R. Blumenthal
  • The rise of Jewish rationalism
  • The Qabbalah
  • Part three. Jacob B. Agus and Jewish-Christian dialogue: a view from the Christian side
  • Selections and prefatory remarks / Eugene J. Fisher
  • Judaism and the New Testament
  • Perspectives for the study of the Book of Acts
  • A new kind of Christian-Jewish disputation
  • Part four. Jacob Agus' ideology of American Judaism: American Jews or Jewish Americans?
  • Selections and prefatory remarks / Milton R. Konvitz
  • Who we are
  • Assimilation, integration, segregation: the road to the future
  • Jewish self-image in the post-war world
  • Part five. The concept of God in Jacob Agus' theology
  • Selection and prefatory remarks / William E. Kaufman
  • The idea of God
  • Part six. Jacob B. Agus on the meaning of Jewish history and experience
  • Selections and prefatory remarks / Neil Gillman
  • Epilogue to the evolution of Jewish thought
  • The concept of Israel
  • Part seven. Jacob B. Agus and the conservative movement
  • Selections and prefatory remarks / Mordecai Waxman
  • Reevaluation of the "Responsumon on the Sabbath"
  • Birth control: a dissent
  • Law in conservative Judaism
  • A theological foundation for the Halachah
  • Part eight. Jewish law as standards
  • Selection and prefatory remarks / Elliot N. Dorff
  • The conservative movement
  • Part nine. Jacob B. Agus as pulpit rabbi
  • Selections and prefatory remarks / Mark Loeb
  • Religion and nationalism
  • The covenant concept: particularistic, pluralistic, or futuristic?
  • Bibliography of the works of Jacob B. Agus.