In this Book
- Reviewing the Covenant: Eugene B. Borowitz and the Postmodern Renewal of Jewish Theology
- Book
- 2000
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Jewish Philosophy
summary
This major intellectual response to the leading theologian of liberal Judaism provides a significant indication of future directions in Jewish religious thought. 'In Reviewing the Covenant, six Jewish philosophers—and one Christian colleague—respond to the work of the renowned Jewish theologian Eugene B. Borowitz, one of the leading figures in the movement of “postmodern” Jewish philosophy and theology. The title recalls Borowitz’s earlier book, Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the Postmodern Jew, in which he lent this movement a theological agenda, and the essays in this book respond to Borowitz’s call: to revitalize contemporary Judaism by renewing the covenant that binds modern Jews to re-live and re-interpret the traditions of Judaism’s past.
Together with the introductory and responsive essays by Peter Ochs and Borowitz himself, the essays offer a community of dialogue, an attempt to reason-out how Jewish faith is possible after the Holocaust and how reason itself is possible after the failings of the great “-isms” of the modern world. This dialogue is conducted under the banner of “postmodern Judaism,” a daunting term that by the end of the book receives a surprisingly direct meaning, namely, the condition of disillusionment and loss out of which Jews can and must find a third way out of the modern impasse between arrogant rationalism and arrogant religion. Representing a major intellectual response to the leading theologian of liberal Judaism, the book provides a significant indication of future directions in Jewish religious thought.
Table of Contents
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- Introductory
- p. 1
- Readings of the Readings
- p. 109
- Bibliography
- pp. 201-205
- Index of Biblical and Rabbinic Sources
- pp. 213-214
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791492796
MARC Record
OCLC
45728065
Pages
214
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No