New Perspectives in Theology of Judaism.

Front -- Contents -- The Chair, the Incumbent, and the Donors -- Introduction -- Is There an Indigenous Jewish Theology? -- Toward a Philosophy of Modern Orthodoxy -- Is Judaism an Optimistic Religion? -- The Meaning of Existentialism for Orthodoxy -- The Biblical Stories of Creation, the Garden of Eden, and the Flood: History or Metaphor? -- Paradise Lost or Outgrown? -- Multiplicity of Meaning as a Device in Biblical Narrative -- Torat Hashem / Torat Moshe: Exploring their Respective Roles -- Is God Truly Unknowable? -- Love of God -- Selfhood and Godhood in Jewish Thought and Modern Philosophy -- Unity of God as Dynamic of Redemption -- Toward an Ethical Theory of Judaism -- What is Self-theory, and Does Judaism Need One? -- Judaism and the Aesthetic -- Providential History and the Anthropic Principle -- The Role of Reason in Jewish Religious Belief * -- The Religious Meaning of the State of Israel -- Religious Zionism: What is It? -- Does Messianism Imply Inevitability? -- Acknowledgements -- Index.

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