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"Investigating how Jewish thinkers from the biblical to the postmodern era have approached questions about God-e.g, "Is God like a person?," "Is God good?," "Does God redeem?"--And highlighting interplays between texts over time, Tuling elucidates many contradictor...

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Autor principal: Tuling, Kari H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Bible. > Old Testament.
Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Rabbinical literature.
God (Judaism)
RELIGION > Judaism > Theology.
Litterature rabbinique > Histoire et critique.
Dieu (Judaïsme)
Rabbinical literature > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Is God the Creator and Source of All Being-Including Evil?
  • 1. What Does It Mean to Say That God Created the World?
  • 1.1. A Biblical View: In the Image of God
  • 1.2. From the Liturgy: God Renews Creation Day by Day
  • 1.3. A Rabbinic View: The Trouble with Angels
  • 1.4. A Medieval View: Ibn Pakuda's Logical Analysis
  • 1.5. A Modern View: Green's Divine Helpmate
  • 1.6. A Modern View: Kushner's Sermon
  • 1.7. Summary of Views
  • 1.8. Meaning of the Seven-Day Creation Narrative
  • 1.9. Intended Role of Humanity
  • 2. How Does Evil Exist in a World with a Good God?
  • 2.1. A Biblical View: Romping in the Garden of Eden
  • 2.2. From the Liturgy: The Soul You Have Given Me Is Pure
  • 2.3. A Rabbinic View: The Impulse to Good and the Impulse to Evil
  • 2.4. A Medieval View: Maimonides on Adam's Sin
  • 2.5. A Modern View: Cohen on God's Holiness
  • 2.6. A Modern View: Kushner on Bad Things That Happen
  • 2.7. Summary of Views
  • 2.8. The Question of Free Will
  • 2.9. Why Does God Allow Evil to Exist?
  • Part 2. Does God Have a Personality-or Is God an Impersonal Force?
  • 3. Is God Like a Person?
  • 3.1. A Biblical View: Moses Asks to Behold God's Presence
  • 3.2. From the Liturgy: Forgiveness and God's Body
  • 3.3. A Rabbinic View: Where Is God's Place?
  • 3.4. A Medieval View: Maimonides and the Attributes of Action
  • 3.5. A Modern View: Buber's Dialogic Approach
  • 3.6. A Modern View: Green's Non-Dualism
  • 3.7. Summary of Views
  • 3.8. Thinking of God as a Person
  • 3.9. Imagining a Personal God vs. Imagining God as an Impersonal Force
  • 4. Does God Have a Gender?
  • 4.1. A Biblical View: What Does Gender Have to Do with It?
  • 4.2. From the Liturgy: Our Father, Our King
  • 4.3. A Rabbinic View: God's Fire and the Patriarchy
  • 4.4. A Medieval View: Scholem Explains the Rise of the Shekhinah
  • 4.5. A Modern View: Plaskow's Feminist Critique
  • 4.6. A Modern View: Adler and the "Pudding Stone"
  • 4.7. A Modern View: Falk's Poetic Rewrite
  • 4.8. Summary of Views
  • 4.9. Implications of Masculine Images of God
  • 4.10. Rethinking the Meaning of Traditional Texts with Male Imagery
  • 5. What Does It Mean to Declare God Is One?
  • 5.1. A Biblical View: Hear, O Israel
  • 5.2. From the Liturgy: The Shema and Its Blessings
  • 5.3. A Rabbinic View: A Deathbed Shema
  • 5.4. A Medieval View: Maimonides' Meditation
  • 5.5. A Modern View: Schneerson's Explicit Mysticism
  • 5.6. A Modern View: Soloveitchik Is Ever the Rationalist
  • 5.7. A Modern View: Schachter-Shalomi's Embodied Prayer
  • 5.8. Summary of Views
  • 5.9. The Meaning of Bearing Witness to God's Oneness
  • 5.10. Praying as One (Community)
  • Part 3. Does God Redeem-or Might God Not Redeem?
  • 6. Does God Intervene in Our Lives?

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