Jewish Faith in a Changing World : : A Modern Introduction to the World and Ideas of Classical Jewish Philosophy / / Raphael Shuchat.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
• VerfasserIn: Shuchat, Raphael,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Dedication --; Table of Contents --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER 1. What is Jewish Philosophy? --; CHAPTER 2. What is Man 1: A Rationalist Approach --; CHAPTER 3. The Place of Moral Judgment and the Garden of Eden Story --; CHAPTER 4. What is Man 2: A Kabbalistic Approach and an Alternate Explanation of the Garden of Eden Story --; CHAPTER 5. Free Will vs. Determinism, Divine Pre-Knowledge vs. Human Free Will, Divine Knowledge of the Present --; CHAPTER 6. The Human Soul and Personality: Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Al-Farabi and Maimonides --; CHAPTER 7. The Human Soul: A Kabbalistic View --; CHAPTER 8. A Theory of Morality—Maimonides’ take on Aristotle’s Golden Mean --; CHAPTER 9. Understanding the Afterlife and Messianism: A Rationalist Approach --; CHAPTER 10. Understanding the Afterlife and Messianism: A Kabbalistic Approach --; CHAPTER 11. Belief in God: Is it a Mitzvah? An Unusual Problem Among the Legalists --; CHAPTER 12. Belief in God: The Classical Approach in the Middle Ages, Halevi’s Critique, and the Problems with the Logical Proofs --; CHAPTER 13. Belief in God: A Modern Approach --; CHAPTER 14. Changes in the Perception of Monotheism Over the Ages --; CHAPTER 15. Why Mysticism is So Popular Today --; CHAPTER 16. Attitudes Towards Modern Cosmogony and Evolution Among Rabbinic Thinkers in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: The Resurgence of the Doctrine of the Sabbatical Years --; CHAPTER 17. The Resurgence of Religion in the Late Twentieth Century and Judaism’s Unique Contribution to a Moderate and Meaningful Life --; APPENDIX I. Development of the Oral Torah --; APPENDIX II. The World of Maimonides: An Unorthodox Modern History of an Orthodox and Modern Thinker --; APPENDIX III. Brief Biographies of Well-Known Jewish Thinkers --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781618110886; 9783111024080; 9783110688146
• DOI: 10.1515/9781618110886
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Raphael Shuchat.

Ever since the first encounter between Judaism and the western world in the second century BCE, Jewish thinkers like Maimonides, Gersonides, R. Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, and Rabbi A. I. Kook have grappled with issues of Jewish faith and modernity. The works they published, which comprise Jewish classical philosophy, were products of the highest intellectual caliber, and no question of faith, no matter how embarrassing or heretical, was overlooked. In this book Raphael Shuchat presents the reader with some of the main and timeless issues of Jewish philosophy over the ages and updates them to twenty-first century thinking, making each issue relevant for the modern reader. This book offers a fresh intellectual outlook on the Jewish faith, and contains a timely message for all religionists and thinkers in the twenty-first century. It will be of great use to both students and laymen.