ENGLISH

A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community

By Jeffrey S. Gurock , Jacob J. Schacter

Book information

Year
1998
ISBN
0231106262, 9780231106269, 9780231504492
LCC
BM755.K289
Open Library ID
OL22420584M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1199735 bytes)
Pages
256\233
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist movement, was the most influential and controversial radical Jewish thinker in the twentieth century. This book examines the intellectual influences that moved Kaplan from Orthodoxy and analyzes the combination of personal, strategic, and career reasons that kept Kaplan close to Orthodox Jews, posing a question crucial to the understanding of any religion: Can an established religious group learn from a heretic who has rejected its most fundamental beliefs?

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