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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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
2014.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.