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Abstract / Summary

This book is dedicated to an analysis of the writings of modern religious Jewish thinkers who adopted a neo-fundamentalist, illusionary, apologetic approach, opposing the notion that there may sometimes be a contradiction between reason and revelation. The book deals with the thought of Eliezer Goldman, Norman Lamm, David Hartman, Aharon Lichtenstein, Jonathan Sacks, and Michael Abraham. According to these thinkers, it is possible to resolve all of the difficulties that arise from the encounter between religion and science, between reason and revelation, between the morality of halakhah and Western morality, between academic scholarship and tradition, and between scientific discoveries and statements found in the Torah. This position runs counter to the stance of other Jewish thinkers who espouse a different, more daring approach. According to the latter view, irresolvable contradictions between reason and faith sometimes face the modern Jewish believer, who must reconcile himself to these two conflicting truths and learn to live with them. This dialectic position was discussed in Between Religion and Reason, Part I (Academic Studies Press, 2020). The present volume, Part II, completes the discussion of this topic. This book concludes a trilogy of works by the author dealing with modern Jewish thought that attempts to integrate tradition and modernity. The first in the series was The Middle Way (Academic Studies Press, 2014), followed by The Dual Truth (Academic Studies Press, 2018).

Field of Interest

Religion & Thought

Author

Ephraim Chamiel

Copyright Message

Copyright © 2021 Academic Studies Press

Content Type

General reference book

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Format

Text

Page Count

246

Publication Year

2021

Publisher

Academic Studies Press

Place Published / Released

Brookline, MA

Series Number

Part II

Subject

Religion & Thought, Social Sciences, Belief Systems, Theology, Philosophy, Systèmes de croyances, النظم العقائدية, Glaubenssysteme, מערכות אמונה, Sistema de Creencias, Sistema de Crenças, نظام اللاهوت, Théologie, al-Kalām, Theologie, תֵאוֹלוֹגִיָה, Teologia, Teología, الفلسفة, Philosophie, Falsafa, פִילוֹסוֹפִיָה, Filosofía, Filosofia, Michael Abraham, 1960-, Jonathan Henry Sacks, 1948-2020, Aharon Lichtenstein, 1993-2015, David Hartman, 1931-2013, Norman Lamm, 1927-2020, Eliezer Goldman, 1918-2002, Jewish Orthodox, Progressivism, Ancient Thought & Culture, Attitudes toward, Orthodox Judaism, Jews

Translator

Michael Carasik, fl. 2021

Series / Program

Studies in Orthodox Judaism

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Systèmes de croyances, النظم العقائدية, Glaubenssysteme, מערכות אמונה, Sistema de Creencias, Sistema de Crenças, نظام اللاهوت, Théologie, al-Kalām, Theologie, תֵאוֹלוֹגִיָה, Teologia, Teología, الفلسفة, Philosophie, Falsafa, פִילוֹסוֹפִיָה, Filosofía, Filosofia