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

by Donald J. Moore. 216 pgs.

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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
CONTENTS
Introduction 1
1 The Quest for Being Human 21
Humanity on Trial 22
Authentic Humanity 24
The Struggle for Meaning 27
The Challenge of Living 33
Wonder, Awe, and Amazement 37
Manipulation and Appreciation 41
2 Faith: The Flowering of the Human 50
The Genesis of Faith 51
Response to the Mystery 58
Faith and Belief 63
Faith and Revelation 66
3 The God of Care and Concern 77
Pathos as Fundamental 77
Apathy vs. Sympathy 82
The Wrath of God 85
The Divine Initiative 88
Partnership with God 89
God as Challenge and Demand 93
The Presence and Glory of God 94
4 Religion and Human Existence 100
Origin of Religion 100
Dangers and Weaknesses of Religion 106
The Role of Prayer 112
An Invitation to God 114
Becoming Known by God 116
Prayer and Worship 119
The Prophetic Religion of Sympathy 121
Uniqueness of Prophetic Religion 124
5 The Demand To Be Human 130
Covenant and Election 131
Centrality of the Deed 135
To Be What One Does 139
Halacha and Agada 141
The Danger of Symbolism 147
The Sabbath: Sanctifying Time 151
Redemption: A Divine and a Human Task 156
The Role of the Land 159
Judaism and Christianity 163
6 Holiness Through Humanness 172
The Pious Man 173
A Prophetic Spirituality 176
The Baal Shem and the Kotzker 182
The Jewish Community in Eastern Europe 193
The Role of Education 198
A Universality of Concern 201
An Unfinished Task 206
Bibliography 213
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The Human and the Holy: The Spirituality of Abraham Joshua Heschel
Book by Donald J. Moore; Fordham University Press, 1989
Subjects: Heschel, Abraham Joshua--1907-1972
...Moore. 1. Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 1907-1972. 2. Religion...in Warsaw in 1907, a direct descendant...and namesake, Abraham Joshua Heschel, known as the...Conversation with Doctor Abraham Joshua Heschel," December 20, 1972, National Broadcasting...
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Heschel, Hasidism and Halakha
Book by Samuel H. Dresner; Fordham University Press, 2002
Subjects: Hasidism, Heschel, Abraham Joshua--1907-1972, Jewish Law, Jewish Scholars--United States--Biography, Judaism--Customs And Practices
...0-8232-2116-4 (pbk.) 1. Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 1907-1972. 2. Jewish scholars-United...States-Biography. 3. Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 1907-1972-Views on Hasidism. 4. Hasidism. 5. Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 1907-1972-Views on Jewish law...
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The Promise of Heschel
Book by Franklin Sherman; Lippincott, 1970
Subjects: Heschel, Abraham Joshua--1907-1972
...these further dimensions of the man and of his work. Abraham Joshua Heschel, like another great theologian of our time, Paul Tillich...Germany. Heschel, however, is Polish in origin. Born in 1907 in Warsaw, he received his early education entirely...
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The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia
Book by Moshe Idel, Jonathan Chipman; State University of New York Press, 1988
Subjects: Abulafia, Abraham Ben Samuel--1240-Ca. 1292, Cabala--History, Ecstasy (Judaism)
...Mittelalters Berlin, 1907 , 1: 183,225; Shimeon Bernfeld...142-146; Azriel Gunzig, "Rabbi Abraham Abulafia" Heb. , ha-E s...from manuscripts in his Abraham Abulafia . 16...17. See Abraham Berger, "The Messianic Self-Consciousness...
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The Theology of Abraham Bibago: A Defense of the Divine Will, Knowledge, and Providence in Fifteenth-Century Spanish-Jewish Philosophy
Book by Allan Lazaroff; University of Alabama, 1981
Subjects: Bibago, Abraham Ben Shem Tov--15th Cent--Derekh Emunah, Judaism--Doctrines, Philosophy, Jewish
The Theology of Abraham Bibago JUDAIC STUDIES SERIES General...Glatzer Jacob R. Marcus The Theology of Abraham Bibago A Defense of the Divine Will...Lazaroff, Allan. The theology of Abraham Bibago. Judaic studies; 9 Bibliography...
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journal articles on: (Heschel Abraham Joshua 1907 1972)  - 1 result

 
 
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Heschel and the Christians
Journal article by Michael A. Chester; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 2001
Subjects: Christianity and other religions--Judaism, Heschel, Abraham Joshua--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Judaism--Doctrines
...1991)), pp. 273-274. (2.) Abraham Joshua Heschel, Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy...D. Davies, "In Memoriam: Abraham Joshua Heschel, 1907-1972," Duke Divinity School Review...Pearce, 1944), p. 4. (12.) Abraham Joshua Heschel, "A Last Farewell," Conservative...


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magazine articles on: (Heschel Abraham Joshua 1907 1972)  - 3 results

 
 
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Theology, Politics, and Abraham Joshua Heschel
Magazine article by David Novak; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, February 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972 (Book)--Book reviews
...biography that began with the 1998 Abraham Joshua Heschel: Prophetic Witness (cowritten with...followed Heschel from his birth in 1907 through his work years in Poland...1940 until his death in December 1972 as a celebrated thinker and public...
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Jewish Renewal in Pre-Nazi Berlin: Abraham Heschel Interprets William James
Magazine article by Edward K. Kaplan; Cross Currents, Vol. 53, Fall 2003
Subjects: Heschel, Abraham Joshua, James, William, Jews, Religion
...Abraham Heschel (1907-1972), who became...States in 1940. Heschels encounter with...Warsaw, Poland, Abraham Joshua Heschel was...Theology of Abraham Joshua Heschel (New York: Macmillan...Holiness in Words: Abraham Joshua Heschels Poetics of Piety...
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The Assimilation of Judaism: Heschel and the 'Category Mistake'
Magazine article by Byron L. Sherwin; Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought, Vol. 55, Fall-Winter 2006
Subjects: Judaism, Wellhausen, Julius
...THE birth of my mentor, Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972). In the years before his...Judaism, as well. NOTES (1) Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual...appendices in Morris Faierstein, "Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Holocaust," Modern...


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