Democratizing Judaism / / Jack J. Cohen.
Democratizing Judaism is a two-part examination of the Reconstructionist philosophy of Mordecai M. Kaplan. Part I is largely devoted to a defense of Kaplan against several serious critics. It also provides new insight into Kaplan’s theology through reference to hitherto unknown passages in his diari...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (315 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A Personal Introduction
- Part I. Mordecai M. Kaplan Reexamined
- Ch. 1 Theorist and Activist
- Ch. 2 The Rational Mystic
- Ch. 3 Toward a Theology of Experience
- Ch. 4 Religious Education for Democracy
- Ch. 5 On the Theology of Election
- Ch. 6 Other Critics
- Ch. 7 Naturalism and Supernaturalism
- Ch. 8 Ethical Values in the Thought of Bertrand Russell and Mordecai M. Kaplan
- Part II. Reconstructionism Reexamined and Applied
- Ch. 9 Reconstructionism Revisited
- Ch. 10 A State with a Jewish Majority
- Ch. 11 The Concept of a Jewish State
- Ch. 12 What Is a Zionist State?
- Ch. 13 The Western Wall
- Ch. 14 A Theology of Ethics
- Ch. 15 “Is This the Meaning of My Life?”
- Ch. 16 A Rational Approach to the Idea of God
- Ch. 17 When a Judge Steps off the Bench
- Index