Personal Theology : : Essays in Honor of Neil Gillman / / ed. by William Plevan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Borowitz, Eugene B.,; Dorff, Elliot N.,; Glazer, Aubrey L.,; Green, Arthur,; Levin, Leonard,; Magid, Shaul,; Plevan, William,; Portnoff, Sharon,; Redl, Nina,; Roth, Joel,; Schottenstein, Jay,; Schottenstein, Jeannie,; Scult, Mel,; Stone, Ira F.,; Wachs, Saul P.,
• HerausgeberIn: Plevan, William,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 p.)

Neil Gillman has been a part of the JTS community for over 50 years as a student, administrator and member of the faculty. His most enduring contribution as a scholar and a teacher has been a renewed focus on the importance of theological reflection in rabbinic education and Jewish education, both i...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Introduction
• Jewish Images of God
• The Certainty of Myth: The Legacy of Neil Gillman
• The Seminary Theology Professor’s Special Responsibility
• A Neo-Hasidic Life: Credo and Reflections
• Is There an Essential Theology for a Halakhic Movement?
• Is Theology the Handmaiden of Halakhah?
• Is the “Halakhic Authenticity” of Conservative Judaism a Broken Myth?
• Toward a Curriculum for Increasing the Active Participation of Congregants at Prayer Services
• Mordecai Kaplan: “The Master of Midrash”
• The “Ethnic Jew” and Judaism in America according to Felix Adler, Josephine Lazarus, and Mordecai Kaplan
• Making Peace with Philosophy: Emil L. Fackenheim’s Hegelianism
• Living the Death of God in the Hope of Words: On Gillman, Jabès, Marcel, and Badiou
• Index