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The Human and the Holy: The Spirituality of Abraham Joshua Heschel

by Donald J. Moore

Pages: 216

Contributors: Donald J. Moore

Publisher: Fordham University Press

Place of Publication: New York

Publication Year: 1989

Subjects: Heschel, Abraham Joshua,--1907-1972

Table of Contents

Title Page

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction

Notes

1: The Quest for Being Human

Notes

2: Faith: The Flowering of the Human

Notes

3: The God of Care and Concern

Notes

4: Religion and Human Existence

Notes

5: The Demand to Be Human

Notes

6: Holiness Through Humanness

Notes

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