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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewJudaism After Modernity is an excellent book for each of us who want to understand better the theological issues that face us in the "postmodern" era. * Conservative Judaism Quarterly *
The essays...show how a first-rate theological mind does its work... -- Jacob Neusner, Indiana Jewish Post & Opinion
The essays...show how a first-rate theological mind does its work... -- Jacob Neusner, Indiana Jewish Post & Opinion
Table of Contentschapter 1 Introducing the Collection chapter 2 Fragments of a Spiritual Biography: My Inner Life chapter 3 My Father's Spirituality and Mine chapter 4 My Way Beyond Modernity chapter 5 My "Not a Festschrift:" Jewish Spiritual Journeys chapter 6 The Emergence of a Postmodern Judaism: Continuity and Creativity in the History of the Jewish Religion chapter 7 The First Commandment, A Postmodern Reading chapter 8 What Does the Halakhah Say About....? Joseph Karo's Preface to the Bet Yosef chapter 9 American Jewish Modernity Comes to Self-consciousness chapter 10 B'rit, Mitzvah and Halakha: In Search of a Common Vocabulary chapter 11 The Way to a Postmodern Jewish Theology chapter 12 Postmodernity and the Quintessential Modern Jewish Religious Movement chapter 13 Five Letters to Readers of Renewing the Covenant chapter 14 Textual Reasoning and Jewish Philosophy, The next phase of Jewish Postmodernity? chapter 15 What Does Judaism Say About...?: Covenant chapter 16 Zionism chapter 17 Apostasy chapter 18 Postmodern Jewish Ethics chapter 19 Human Rights chapter 20 Money chapter 21 Finding a Jewish View of a Just Economy chapter 22 Psychoanalysis Religious Pluralism (with Sherry Blumberg) chapter 23 Healing chapter 24 Aging (with Kerry Olitzky) chapter 25 Life After Death chapter 26 My Teacher, My Friend, My Dialogue Partners: Abraham J. Heschel chapter 27 Arnold Jacob Wolf at Seventy chapter 28 John Hick: Advocate of Adjective-less Religion chapter 29 Frans Jozef van Beeck, Advocate for Roman Catholicism chapter 30 Masao Abe's Challenge to Modern Jewish Theology chapter 31 About the Author
