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Zusatztext Lenn Goodman's God of Abraham is a remarkable book of vast scope! compelling rigor! and great eloquence ... Goodman traverses! masters! and makes important contributions to numerous contemporary discussions ... His is a book that can and ought to be read! reread! and studied with continuing benefit. Klappentext This cogently argued and richly illustrated book rejects the dichotomy between the God of Abraham and the God of the philosophers to argue that the two are one. In God of Abraham! one of our leading philosophers of religion shows how human values can illuminate our idea of God and how the monotheistic idea of God in turn illuminates our moral! social! cultural! aesthetic! and even ritual understanding. Throughout Goodman draws on a wealth of traditional! philosophical! historical! and anthropological materials! and particularly on a wide range of Jewish sources. He demonstrates how an adequate understanding of the interplay of values with monotheism dissolves many of the longstanding problems of natural theology and ethics and guides us toward a genuinely humanistic moral and social philosophy. Zusammenfassung Goodman shows how human values illuminate the idea of God, which in turn sheds light on our value concerns. Drawing on a wealth of traditional and philosophical material including Jewish sources, he shows how an adequate understanding of the interplay of values with monotheism can dissolve many of the longstanding problems of natural theology and ethics and guide us to a genuinely humanistic moral and social philosophy.
Summary
Drawing on a wealth of traditional and philosophical material, mainly from Jewish sources, this treatise shows how human values illuminate the idea of God, which in turn sheds light on our value concerns.
