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Contents “. . . Who has brought us to this day. . .” Acknowledgments xi Preface xv A GLIMPSE: WHEN AGNOSTICISM AND RATIONALISM COULD NO LONGER GROUND OUR VALUES 1 1 / 1950 Theological Conference Cincinnati, 1950: Reform Judaism’s Fresh Awareness of Religious Problems 7 2 / 1956 Creating Commitment in Our Religious Schools 17 3 / 1957 The Idea of God 31 4 / 1959 Existentialism’s Meaning for Judaism: A Contemporary Midrash 47 5 / 1961 Crisis Theology and the Jewish Community 59 6 / 1963 Faith and Method in Modern Jewish Theology 69 7 / 1964 Creative Worship in the Computer Age 85 8 / 1964 Why We Went: A Joint Letter from the Rabbis Arrested in St. Augustine 89 A TRACK: LEADING ON FROM GOD, THE GROUND OF OUR VALUES 95 9 / 1966 On Celebrating Sinai 101 10 / 1970 The Problem of the Form of a Jewish Theology 115 11 / 1970 The Postsecular Situation of Jewish Theology 133 ix 12 / 1971 Education Is Not I-Thou 149 13 / 1974 Tzimtzum: A Mystic Model for Contemporary Leadership 157 14 / 1978 A Jewish Response: The Lure and Limits of Universalizing Our Faith 171 15 / 1982 The Authority of the Ethical Impulse in Halakhah 179 16 / 1983 Recent Historic Events: Jewish and Christian Interpretations 193 17 / 1984 The Autonomous Jewish Self 215 A WAY: THE POSTMODERN EXPLICATION OF JEWISH SELFHOOD 235 18 / 1986 Hillul Hashem: A Universalistic Rubric in the Halakhah 241 19 / 1986 The Ideal Jew 255 20 / 1986 The Critical Issue in the Quest for Social Justice: A Jewish View 275 21 / 1987 The Blessing over a Change of Wine: A Study in the Development of a Jewish Law Published in Honor of the Eightieth Birthday of Nathaniel E. Hess 289 22 / 1987 Co-Existing with Orthodox Jews 317 23 / 1992 Dynamic Sunyata and the God Whose Glory Fills the Universe 327 24 / 1997 “Please, God, Heal Her, Please” 341 25 / 2000 “Im ba’et, eyma”—Since You Object, Let Me Put It This Way 351 A PAUSE: TO LOOK BACK BEFORE MOVING ON 375 26 / 2000 A Life of Jewish Learning: In Search of a Theology of Judaism 379 27 / 2002 “Halakhah” in Reform Jewish Usage: Historic Background and Current Discourse 415 Glossary 435 Bibliography of the Writing of Eugene B. Borowitz 443 Index 467 x Contents ...