Man Is Not Alone

Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374513287
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
This book examines the ingredients of piety: how man senses God's presence, explores it, accepts it, and builds life upon it. The author's philosophy of religion is not a philosophy of doctrine or the interpretation of a dogma. He erects his carefully built structure of thought upon foundations which are universally valid but almost generally ignored.

God in Search of Man

Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374513317
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 466

Book Description
Abraham Joshua Heschel was one of the most revered religious leaders of the 20th century, and God in Search of Man and its companion volume, Man Is Not Alone, two of his most important books, are classics of modern Jewish theology. God in Search of Man combines scholarship with lucidity, reverence, and compassion as Dr. Heschel discusses not man's search for God but God's for man--the notion of a Chosen People, an idea which, he writes, "signifies not a quality inherent in the people but a relationship between the people and God." It is an extraordinary description of the nature of Biblical thought, and how that thought becomes faith.

Who Is Man?

Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804702669
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
One of the worlds most illustrious and influential theologians here confronts one of the crucial philosophical and religious questions of our time: the nature and role of man. In these three lectures, originally delivered in somewhat different form as The Raymond Fred West Memorial Lectures at Stanford University in May 1963, Dr. Heschel inquires into the logic of being human: What is meant by being human? What are the grounds on which to justify a human beings claim to being human? In the authors words, We have never been as openmouthed and inquisitive, never as astonished and embarrassed at our ignorance about man. We know what he makes, but we do not konw wha he is or what to expect of him. Is it not conceivable that our entire civilization is built upon a minsinterpretation of man? Or that the tragedy of man is due to the fact that he is a being who has forgotten the question: Who is Man? The failure to identify himself, to know what is authentic human existence, leads him to assume a false identity, to pretending to be what he is unable to be or to not accepting what is at the very root of his being. Ignorance about man is not lack of knowledge, but false knowledge.

Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity

Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374524951
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 468

Book Description
Gathers essays by the Jewish scholar, activist, and theologian about Judaism, Jewish heritage, social justice, ecumenism, faith, and prayer.

Man Is Not Alone

Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466800089
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
Man Is Not Alone is a profound, beautifully written examination of the ingredients of piety: how man senses God's presence, explores it, accepts it, and builds life upon it. Abraham Joshua Heschel's philosophy of religion is not a philosophy of doctrine or the interpretation of a dogma. He erects his carefully built structure of thought upon foundations which are universally valid but almost generally ignored. It was Man Is Not Alone which led Reinhold Niebuhr accurately to predict that Heschel would "become a commanding and authoritative voice not only in the Jewish community but in the religious life of America." With its companion volume, God in Search of Man, it is revered as a classic of modern theology.

Between God and Man

Author: Abraham Heschel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 068483331X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
Heschel was one of the outstanding Judaic philosophers and theologians of our time, and this is more than just a comprehensive introduction to contemporary Judaism as he attempts to bridge the gap between traditions of Eastern European Jewry and the scholarship of Western civilisation.

Heavenly Torah

Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826408020
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 876

Book Description
his most ambitious scholarly achievement, his three-volume study of Rabbinic Judaism, is only now appearing in English.

Insecurity of Freedom

Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374506086
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
The Insecurity of Freedom is a collection of essays on Human Existence by one of the foremost Jewish thinkers of our time, Abraham Joshua Heschel.

The Ineffable Name of God - Man

Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826418937
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
Written between 1927 and 1933—and never published in English before—this is the intimate spiritual diary of a devout European Jew, loyal to the revelation at Sinai and afflicted with reverence for all human beings.

The Prophets

Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description