The Jewish Approach to God - A Brief Introduction for Christians

Guides you through the countless ways the Jewish people have related to God, how they originated and what they may mean for you. No matter your faith or background, this nuts-and-bolts introduction will both answer your questions and stimulate new ones.

List of contents

Introduction
A Note on the Text
1. God Is Echad
2. God Is Power
3. God Is Person
4. God Is Nice (Sometimes)
5. God Is Not Nice (Sometimes)
6. God Can Change
7. God Creates
8. God Reveals
9. God Redeems
Conclusion: What It Means to Be Jewish
Notes
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading

About the author

Neil Gillman, rabbi and PhD, is professor of Jewish philosophy at The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where he has served as chair of the Department of Jewish Philosophy and dean of the Rabbinical School. He is author of Believing and Its Tensions: A Personal Conversation about God, Torah, Suffering and Death in Jewish Thought; The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a Publishers Weekly "Best Book of the Year"; The Way Into Encountering God in Judaism; The Jewish Approach to God: A Brief Introduction for Christians; Traces of God: Seeing God in Torah, History and Everyday Life (all Jewish Lights) and Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew, winner of the National Jewish Book Award.

Product details

• Authors: Neil Gillman, PhD Gillman
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2003
• EAN: 9781683363828
• ISBN: 978-1-68336-382-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 381 g
• Series: Brief Introduction for Christi; A Brief Introduction for Christians
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works