Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the Postmodern Jew

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface ix
• Renewing the Covenant - A Theology for the Postmodern Jew xv
• Introduction: the History That Shapes Us 1
• Jewish Religious Experience In Our Time 7
• 1 - Modernization: The Secular Messiah 9
• 2 - Modernity: The Betrayer 20
• 3 - Through the Shadowed Valley 32
• A Postliberal Theology Of Jewish Duty 53
• 4 - God-Israel-Torah: Our Hohstic Context 55
• 5 - Not Absolutely Absolute 72
• 6 - More Than Immanent 82
• 7 - Reaching for Transcendence 95
• 8 - Sparks: The Transcendent In The Everyday 108
• 9 - The Who/What of God 118

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface ix
• Renewing the Covenant - A Theology for the Postmodern Jew xv
• Introduction: the History That Shapes Us 1
• Jewish Religious Experience In Our Time 7
• 1 - Modernization: The Secular Messiah 9
• 2 - Modernity: The Betrayer 20
• 3 - Through the Shadowed Valley 32
• A Postliberal Theology Of Jewish Duty 53
• 4 - God-Israel-Torah: Our Hohstic Context 55
• 5 - Not Absolutely Absolute 72
• 6 - More Than Immanent 82
• 7 - Reaching for Transcendence 95
• 8 - Sparks: The Transcendent In The Everyday 108
• 9 - The Who/What of God 118
• 10 - What Does God Still Do? 135
• A Postliberal Theology Of Jewish Duty 153
• 11 - What Can We Do About Our Will-To-Do-Evil? 155
• 12 - The Social Side of Selfhood 170
• 13 - Fully Human, Fully Jewish 182
• 14 - The Sparks of Chosenness 195
• 15 - Covenant, Not Chosenness 207
• 16 - The Dialectic of Living In Covenant 221
• A Postliberal Theology Of Jewish Duty 235
• 17 - When God Donminates 237
• 18 - When Community Takes Priority 254
• 19 - Knowing What God Wants of Us 266
• 20 - The Jewish Self 284
• Afterword 301
• Glossary 303
• Two Bibliographical Notes 307
• Index 311