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Informationen zum Autor Mel Scult is Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and a member of the history faculty at the CUNY Graduate School. He is author of Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century: A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan and editor of Communings of the Spirit: The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, Volume 1: 1913-1934. Klappentext This gracefully argued book, with its sensitive insights into the beliefs of a revolutionary Jewish thinker, makes a powerful contribution to modern Judaism and to contemporary American religious thought. "An important and powerful work that speaks to Mordecai M. Kaplan's position as perhaps the most significant Jewish thinker of the twentieth century... Scult shows Kaplan's theology to be imbued with American values of democracy and individualism." - Deborah Dash Moore, coeditor of Gender and Jewish History Zusammenfassung Makes a powerful contribution to modern Judaism and to contemporary American religious thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. Excommunications: Kaplan and Spinoza 2. Self-Reliance: Kaplan and Emerson 3. Nationalism and Righteousness: Ahad Ha-Am and Matthew Arnold 4. Universalism and Pragmatism: Felix Adler, William James, and John Dewey 5. Kaplan and Peoplehood: Judaism as a Civilization and Zionism 6. Kaplan and His God: An Ambivalent Relationship 7. Kaplan's Theology: Beyond Supernaturalism 8. Salvation: The Goal of Religion 9. Salvation Embodied: The Vehicle of Mitzvot 10. Mordecai the Pious: Kaplan and Heschel 11. The Law: Halakhah and Ethics 12. Kaplan and the Problem of Evil: Cutting the Gordian Knot Conclusion Appendix: "Thirteen Wants" of Mordecai Kaplan Reconstructed Notes Selected Bibliography and Note on Sources Index
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Mel Scult is Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and a member of the history faculty at the CUNY Graduate School. He is author of Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century: A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan and editor of Communings of the Spirit: The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, Volume 1: 1913-1934.
