The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan /

Mordecai M. Kaplan, founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement, is the only rabbi to have been excommunicated by the Orthodox rabbinical establishment in America. Kaplan was indeed a heretic, rejecting such fundamental Jewish beliefs as the concept of the chosen people and a supernatural God....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Scult, Mel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem, > 1881-1983.
Reconstructionist Judaism.
RELIGION > Judaism > Reform.
RELIGION > Judaism > General.
Judaïsme reconstructionniste.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Excommunications: Kaplan and Spinoza
  • Self-reliance: Kaplan and Emerson
  • Nationalism and righteousness: Ahad ha-Am and Matthew Arnold
  • Universalism and pragmatism: Felix Adler, William James, and John Dewey
  • Kaplan and peoplehood: Judaism as a civilization and Zionism
  • Kaplan and his God: an ambivalent relationship
  • Kaplan's theology: beyond supernaturalism
  • Salvation: the goal of religion
  • Salvation embodied: the vehicle of mitzvot
  • Mordecai the pious: Kaplan and Heschel
  • The law: halakhah and ethics
  • Kaplan and the problem of evil: cutting the gordian knot
  • Appendix: "Thirteen wants" of Mordecai Kaplan reconstructed.

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