Ethical Monotheism, Past and Present
Title | Ethical Monotheism, Past and Present PDF eBook |
Author | Wendell S. Dietrich |
Publisher | |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
In the spirit of Dietrich's work, essays by colleagues and former students of the Brown U. professor emeritus explore the boundaries of ethical monotheistic religion historically and as a constructive resource for contemporary religious and ethical thought. Ethical monotheism, the view that monotheistic religion developed toward the prophets' central concern with individual and corporate moral behavior, has dominated modern religious thought since Kant. Dietrich traced its development in Jewish and Christian contexts in his classic monograph Cohen and Troeltsch and other works. c. Book News Inc.
Ethical Monotheism
Title | Ethical Monotheism PDF eBook |
Author | Ehud Benor |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2017-12-15 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1351263943 |
The term Ethical Monotheism is an important marker in Judaism’s tumultuous transition into the modern era. The term emerged in the context of culture-wars concerning the question of whether or not Jews could or should become emancipated citizens of modern European states. It appeared in arguments whether or not Judaism could be considered a Religion of Reason—a symbolic, motivational representation of a universal morality, and in debates about whether or not Judaism could or should reform itself into a Religion of Reason. This book is both a decisive departure from such discussions and an attempt to add a further, post-modern, statement to their ongoing development. As departure, it refuses to take for granted a philosophical conception of Religion of Reason as the standard for Ethical Monotheism according to which Judaism was to be evaluated or reformed. As continuation, the book undertakes a phenomenology of Jewish modes of ethical religiosity that allows it to inquire what kind of ethical monotheism Judaism might be. Through sophisticated analysis of select "snapshots," or "fragments of a hologram," guided by a robust theory of religion, the author discloses Judaic ethical monotheism as an ongoing wrestling with the meaning of justice. By closely examining five main "snapshots" of this long process—the Bible, rabbinic Judaism, Maimonides, The Zohar, and the modern philosophers, Buber and Levinas—the author offers his own constructive philosophy of Judaism and his own distinctive philosophy of religion. Ethical Monotheism offers a new way to think about Judaism as a religion and as a coherent philosophical debate, and demonstrates the need to integrate philosophy, history, cognitive psychology, anthropology, theology, and history of science in the study of "religion."
Cohen and Troeltsch
Title | Cohen and Troeltsch PDF eBook |
Author | Wendell S. Dietrich |
Publisher | |
Pages | 122 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN |
Idolatry and Representation
Title | Idolatry and Representation PDF eBook |
Author | Leora Batnitzky |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2009-07-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1400823587 |
Although Franz Rosenzweig is arguably the most important Jewish philosopher of the twentieth century, his thought remains little understood. Here, Leora Batnitzky argues that Rosenzweig's redirection of German-Jewish ethical monotheism anticipates and challenges contemporary trends in religious studies, ethics, philosophy, anthropology, theology, and biblical studies. This text, which captures the hermeneutical movement of Rosenzweig's corpus, is the first to consider the full import of the cultural criticism articulated in his writings on the modern meanings of art, language, ethics, and national identity. In the process, the book solves significant conundrums about Rosenzweig's relation to German idealism, to other major Jewish thinkers, to Jewish political life, and to Christianity, and brings Rosenzweig into conversation with key contemporary thinkers. Drawing on Rosenzweig's view that Judaism's ban on idolatry is the crucial intellectual and spiritual resource available to respond to the social implications of human finitude, Batnitzky interrogates idolatry as a modern possibility. Her analysis speaks not only to the question of Judaism's relationship to modernity (and vice versa), but also to the generic question of the present's relationship to the past--a subject of great importance to anyone contemplating the modern statuses of religious tradition, reason, science, and historical inquiry. By way of Rosenzweig, Batnitzky argues that contemporary philosophers and ethicists must relearn their approaches to religious traditions and texts to address today's central ethical problems.
Monotheism & Ethics
Title | Monotheism & Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Y. Tzvi Langermann |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2011-11-11 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 900421741X |
Fourteen essays by leading scholars from around the world explore the theological, philosophical, and historical connections between the three Abrahamic faiths and ethics. Timely reading for students of religion, philosophy, and ethics.
Ethical Monotheism a Revelation
Title | Ethical Monotheism a Revelation PDF eBook |
Author | William Edmund Bouslough |
Publisher | |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 1945 |
Genre | Monotheism |
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Monotheism and Tolerance
Title | Monotheism and Tolerance PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Erlewine |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2010-01-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0253221560 |
Monotheism and Tolerance suggests a way to deal with the intractable problem of religiously motivated and justified violence.