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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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. Although he valued the Jewish community and was a committed Zionist, his primary concern was the spiritual fulfillment of the individual. Drawing on Kaplan's 27-volume diary, Mel Scult describes the development of Kaplan's radical theology in dialogue with the thinkers and writers who mattered to. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780253010889 |