Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan

Informationen zum Autor Mel Scult 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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

Product details

• Authors: Mel Scult, Scult Mel
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2015
• EAN: 9780253017116
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01711-6
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Modern Jewish Experience; The Modern Jewish Experience; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Religion - Judaism, RELIGION / Judaism / Theology, RELIGION / Judaism / Reform