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A sequel to Gellman's trilogy with Academic Studies Press of constructive Jewish theology, this book presents a new concept of the Jews as God's Chosen People; a reply to an argument for the reliability of Torah history; and provides an approach to the problem of evil for troubled believers and want to be believers, without trying to solve the problem.
List of contents
Introduction
Part 1: The People
1. A Designated People I: A Figurational View
2. A Designated People II: Figuration and Racism
3. A Designated People III: Michael Wyschogrod
Part 2: The Torah
4. A Critique of Torah History
5. On a Failed Argument for Torah History
6. Moderate Divine Providence
Part 3: The God
7. The Autobiographical Problem Of Evil
8. A Perfectly Good God
9. A Conceivable, Partial, Soul-Making Theodicy for the Autobiographical Problem of Evil
Bibliography
About the author
Jerome Yehuda Gellman is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Philosophy at Ben-Gurion University. He has published widely in the philosophy of religion and constructive Jewish theology. Gellman was a fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University, the Alvin Plantinga Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Religion at Notre Dame University, and a senior fellow at the Hartman Institute. His present project is The Problem of God in Jewish Thought, forthcoming Cambridge University Press.
Summary
Continuing the author’s commitment to neo-traditional constructive Jewish theology, this book is a sequel to Gellman’s trilogy of constructive Jewish theology with Academic Studies Press. The book treats three topics which revise and clarify the author’s views in light of critics and further thought. The book includes a new concept of the Jews as God’s Chosen People for our times; a reply to an argument for the reliability of Torah history; and an approach, not a solution, to the problem of evil for troubled believers and want to be believers.
