Description
Book SynopsisThe notion that the God of the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature, "the God of the Jews," is perfectly good is challenged by apparently immoral acts—by contemporary standards—of that God, as well as by the classic problem of evil.In this book, Jerome Gellman provides ways to question and overcome these challenges, addresses the faithful who are tested by these two problems, and aims to lighten the challenges for them while preserving God's perfect goodness. He recommends replacing a God of the Jews with a different God, a "Jewish God," one in whom many traditional Jews have come to believe. Gellman also offers the traditional believer a possible theodicy explaining much evil.The book is at once analytic in style and Hasidic in broad orientation.
Trade Review"This book is highly recommended mainly for academic libraries with collections that seek to collect books on Jewish theology, philosophy and ethics. - AJL ReviewsTable of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Forward
- Introduction
- My Theological Method
- A Perfectly Good Being
- The God of the Jews
- The Ideological Critique
- The Argument from Evil
- The Humility Response
- Response to the Present-Day Ideological Critique
- Hasidic Panpsychism: "A Portion of God from Above"
- The Multiverse: A Possible Theodicy
- Backward
- Bibliography
