The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish ReligionKaplan takes the major formulation of his theological approach, "God as the power that makes for salvation," and demonstrates how it can be used to invigorate the Jewish religion in a changing world. In this book, Kaplan enlarges on his notion of functional reinterpretation and then actually applies it to the entire ritual cycle of the Jewish year-a rarity in modern Jewish thought. This work continues to function as a central text for the Reconstructionist movement, whose influence continues to grow in American Jewry. |
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
ish religion in a changing world p 1 2 | 9 |
tion p 14 4 The synthesis of incompatible | 20 |
the modern point of view p 25 6 God | 34 |
GOD AS THE POWER THat Makes for Salva | 40 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 104 |
GOD AS THE POWER THAT MAKES FOR | 149 |
GOD IN NATURE AND IN HISTORY | 188 |
GOD FELT AS A PRESENCE | 243 |
GOD AS THE POWER THAT MAKES | 265 |
The meaning of freedom p 268 2 | 293 |
The association of religion with the moral | 299 |
law p 299 2 The Jewish contribution to | 306 |
divine sanction p 311 5 Righteousness to | 320 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 330 |
ization after another p 334 3 How Judaism | 347 |
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achieve ancient aspect associated attitude aware become behavior belief Berakot book of Isaiah common era conceived conception creative Day of Atonement deity divine earth ethical existence Exod experience expression fact faith Felix Adler Festivals forces freedom fulfillment function give God's godhood Greek henotheism holy human nature idea ideals identify implied individual inherent interests interpretation Israel Jewish civilization Jewish religion Jewish tradition Jews Judaism Kaplan kingship life's liturgy live Lord man's manifest meaning Mekilta ment Midrash mind Mishnah modern Jew moral law nation object one's organism other-worldly ourselves past personality physical possible prayer Prophets public worship purpose Rabbis reality realization regarded religious repentance responsibility revealed righteousness ritual Rosh ha-Shanah Sabbath salvation seek self-fulfillment sense Shabbat significance social order society soul sovereignty spiritual Sukkah Sukkot symbol tendency thinking thou thought tion Torah true truth universe values whole YHWH Yom Kippur