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Title

A touch of the sacred : a theologian's informal guide to Jewish belief / Eugene B. Borowitz & Frances W. Schwartz.

Author

Borowitz, Eugene B.

Publication

Woodstock, Vt. : Jewish Lights Pub., [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

Schwartz, Frances Weinman.

Description

xiv, 228 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Judaism > Doctrines
• Jewish way of life
• Judaism > United States
• God (Judaism)
• Spiritual life > Judaism
• Reform Judaism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 228).

Contents

Pt. I. Seeking the Sacred One -- 1. We Can't Talk about God but We Must -- 2. Where Is God? Answering a Nine-Year-Old -- 3. God and Mystery -- 4. The Many Meanings of "God Is One" -- 5. Is Our God Experience Authentic? -- 6. The Jewish Idea(s) of God -- 7. Relating to God: Substance or Style? -- 8. Accepting the World God Willed -- Pt. II. Doing Holy Deeds -- 9. Being Close to God -- 10. The Act and Art of Praying -- 11. Moses' Prayer for Healing - and Ours -- 12. How Shall We Comfort the Mourner? -- 13. Traditional Words of Condolence -- 14. A New Phase in Jewish Piety -- 15. The Power of Creating New Religious Customs -- 16. Fanaticism and Zeal -- 17. Who Is a Mentsh? -- Pt. III. Creating Sacred Community -- 18. A Mystical Model for Leaders -- 19. How an Agnostic Community Came to Seek Spirituality -- 20. The Appeal of Transdenominational Judaism -- 21. A Conflict over Interfaith Dialogue -- 22. How Liberal and Orthodox Jews Can Coexist -- 23. The Special Risk of Liberalizing Judaism -- 24. Catholic-Jewish Dialogue: An Autobiographical Note -- 25. The Historical Case for Interfaith Dialogue -- 26. Building a Community of "God-Fearers" -- Pt. IV. Reading Sacred Texts -- 27. Letting the Psalms Speak to You -- 28. Reliving the Sinai Experience Each Year -- 29. "Weighing" the Texts That Instruct Us -- 30. Putting Texts in Context -- 31. Religious Authority in Judaism -- 32. Integrating Jewish Law and Jewish Ethics -- 33. Jewish Decision Making -- 34. Innovation in Judaism: Yesterday and Today -- Pt. V. Thinking about Holiness -- 35. Why Do We Need Theology? -- 36. Theology as an Afterthought -- 37. Why Historical Theology Won't Do -- 38. Jewish God-Talk's Four Criteria -- 39. The Brain-Heart Interplay in Faith -- 40. Four Ways to Understand "God Says ..." -- 41. Clarifying Some Feminist Ideas -- 42. Jewish Beliefs about Evil -- 43. The Messianic Hope Today -- 44. Life after Death -- Pt. VI. Learning from Holy Thinkers -- 45. Why I Am a Theologian Rather than a Philosopher -- 46. Seven People Who Shaped Modern Jewish Thought -- 47. Rationalist Thinkers and What They Can Teach Us -- 48. Two Misunderstood Messages of Martin Buber -- 49. Mordecai Kaplan: Ethnicity in Modern Judaism -- 50. The Greatest Contemporary Orthodox Jewish Philosopher -- 51. The Ethics "Mystery" and Abraham Joshua Heschel -- 52. Covenant Theology: An Autobiographical Note.

ISBN

• 9781580233378 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1580233376 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2007036767
• 99932476815

OCLC

• ocn171111565
• 171111565
• SCSB-5451281

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries