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Informationen zum Autor Shai Held is Dean and Chair of Jewish Thought at Mechon Hadar, an institute for Jewish prayer, personal growth, and Jewish study which he co-founded. He is winner of a 2011 Covenant Award for excellence in Jewish education, and Newsweek has twice named him one of America's most influential rabbis. Klappentext Shai Held is Dean and Chair of Jewish Thought at Mechon Hadar, an institute for Jewish prayer, personal growth, and Jewish study which he co-founded. He is winner of a 2011 Covenant Award for excellence in Jewish education, and Newsweek has twice named him one of America's most influential rabbis. Zusammenfassung Focusing on the idea of transcendence-or the movement from self-centeredness to God-centeredness-Held puts Heschel into dialogue with contemporary Jewish thinkers, Christian theologians, devotional writers, and philosophers of religion. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Wonder, Intuition, and the Path to God 2. Theological Method and Religious Anthropology: Heschel among the Christians 3. Revelation and Co-Revelation 4. The Pathos of the Self-Transcendent God 5. "Awake, Why Sleepest Thou, O Lord?" Divine Silence and Human Protest in Heschel's Writings 6. The Self that Transcends Itself: Heschel on Prayer 7. Enabling Immanence: Prayer in a Time of Divine Hiddenness Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
