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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 Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) was a prolific scholar, impassioned theologian, and prominent activist who participated in the black civil rights movement and the campaign against the Vietnam War. He has been hailed as a hero, honored as a visionary, and endlessly quoted as a devotional writer. In this sympathetic, yet critical, examination, Shai Held elicits the overarching themes and unity of Heschel's incisive and insightful thought. 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. "Presents a highly compelling theory about the core principles of Heschel's corpus that demands that his thought be studied anew." - Robert Erlewine, Illinois Wesleyan University "Abraham Joshua Heschel was a legendary teacher, theologian, and charismatic Jewish leader, whose legacy for Jewish life today is hard to overestimate.A At the core of this legacy are extensive writings that articulate theological ideas and a view of Judaism of great power and novelty.A However, our understanding ofA this contribution is clouded by hagiography; Heschel's work and his thought have rarely been subjected to careful, critical exploration. Shai Held's new book is a watershed in this regard.A It is philosophically and theologically sophisticated. It leaves no stone unturned in its effort to clarify the main themes and foundational commitments that shaped Heschel's thinking, and it does not shy away from critical evaluation and employs a rich array of contextual factors, including attention to developments in Christian theology and philosophical thinking, in order to provide us with the best picture we have of Heschel's work and his theological thought." - Michael L. Morgan, Indiana University Bloomington Zusammenfassung 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 ...
