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Contemporary Covenantal Thought : Interpretations of Covenant in the Thought of David Hartman and Eugene Borowitz

By Simon Cooper

Book information

Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9781618110862, 9781936235698
LCC
BM612.5 -- .C66 2012eb
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1411637 bytes)
Series
Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah Ser.
Edition
1
Pages
322\322
Time added
2023-08-11 00:30:08
-- 1931- ; BorowitzDavidEugene B. ; Covenants -- Religious aspects -- JudaHartman

Description

Refusing to accept anything but ever-increasing levels of human responsibility within a religious framework, covenantal thinkers audaciously suggest that the covenant empowers humanity as it binds and inhibits divinity. This is a reformulation of recurrent issues within the Jewish tradition, and one which pays homage to the modern context from which it emerges. Hartman and Borowitz grew up in the same mid-century American academic and social environment, and the product of that upbringing has a significant impact on the subsequent theories which they promote. Both thinkers have attracted a considerable following, but very few scholars have discussed them together. Cooper here for the first time works toward understanding their work in comparison with each other, and with covenant as the central focus and framework.

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