Perfect Goodness and the God of the Jews

A Contemporary Jewish Theology

AvJerome (Yehuda) Gellman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

That the God of the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature, “the God of the Jews,” is perfectly good is challenged by apparently immoral acts of that God, by contemporary standards, as well as by the classic problem of evil. In this book, Jerome Gellman aims to alleviate the first challenge, the so-called ideological critique, for the traditional believer by recommending replacing the God of the Jews with a different God, a “Jewish God,” one in whom many traditional Jews have come to believe. And the problem of evil is lightened for the traditional believer, mainly by a possible theodicy explaining much evil. The book is at once analytic in style and Hasidic in broad orientation.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-12-19
Mått:159 x 238 x 17 mm
Vikt:460 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
Antal sidor:202
Förlag:Academic Studies Press
ISBN:9781618118387

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Jerome Yehuda Gellman is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Gellman has been a fellow at the Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, at the Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions, and at the Center for Philosophy of Religion at University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He has published widely in the fields of philosophy of religion and Jewish thought.

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“The attractive thing about this book is its intellectual humility: the author suggests, he does not insist. For anyone interested in Jewish ideas about God, it will prove a stimulating… read.”— John Barton, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies“In this third book in his series on Jewish theology in the modernage, Gellman, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Ben-Gurion University,continues the adaptations of traditional Jewish responses to the questionssurrounding Jewish theology. This book deals with the issue of whether God canbe fully ‘good’ given the objections to Biblical texts which portray actions byGod that are today held to be immoral. … This book is highly recommended mainlyfor academic libraries with collections that seek to collect books on Jewishtheology, philosophy and ethics.”—Eli Lieberman, Assistant Librarian, Hebrew Union College, AJLReviews

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsForwardIntroductionMy Theological MethodA Perfectly Good BeingThe God of the JewsThe Ideological CritiqueThe Argument from EvilThe Humility ResponseResponse to the Present-Day Ideological CritiqueHasidic Panpsychism: “A Portion of God from Above”The Multiverse: A Possible TheodicyBackwardBibliography