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.

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.

Man is Not Alone

Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judaism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

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.

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.

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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Author: Edward K. Kaplan
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300124644
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 438

Book Description
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A Passion for Truth

Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374229929
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
Explores despair and hope in Hasidism as Heschel experienced it himself through study of the Baal Shem Tov and the Kotzker Rebbe.

Man's Quest for God

Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780943358482
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Offers insights that speak to the essence of prayer.

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.