Author: Abraham Joshua HeschelPublisher:
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Category : Judaism
Languages : en
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God in Search of Man
Author: Abraham Joshua HeschelPublisher: 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 HeschelPublisher: 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.
Man Is Not Alone
Author: Abraham Joshua HeschelPublisher: 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.
Between God and Man
Author: Abraham HeschelPublisher: 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.
Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Author: Abraham Joshua HeschelThe Ineffable Name of God - Man
Author: Abraham Joshua HeschelPublisher: 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 Sabbath
Author: Abraham Joshua HeschelPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466800097
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Sabbath has been hailed as a classic of Jewish spirituality ever since its original publication--and has been read by thousands of people seeking meaning in modern life. In this brief yet profound meditation on the meaning of the Seventh Day, Heschel, one of the most widely respected religious leaders of the twentieth century, introduced the influential idea of an 'architecture of holiness" that appears not in space but in time. Judaism, he argues, is a religion of time: it finds meaning not in space and the materials things that fill it but in time and the eternity that imbues it, so that 'the Sabbaths are our great catherdrals.' Featuring black-and-white illustrations by Ilya Schor
