Yitz Greenberg and Modern Orthodoxy : : The Road Not Taken / / ed. by Adam Ferziger, Steven Bayme, Miri Freud-Kandel.

Sixteen scholars from around the globe gathered at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the bucolic Yarnton Manor in the Oxfordshire countryside in June 2014, for the first (now annual) Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary Judaism. The current volume is the fruit of this...

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Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Editors' Foreword
  • Modern Orthodoxy and the Road Not Taken: A Retrospective View
  • Part One. Law and Theology
  • 1. History and Halakhah
  • 2. Rabbi Yitz Greenberg's Covenantal Theory of Bioethics
  • 3. Irving Greenberg's Theology of Hybrid Judaism
  • 4. On the Meaning and Significance of Revelation for Orthodox Judaism
  • 5. Divine Hiddenness and Human Input: The Potential Contribution of a Postmodern View of Revelation to Yitz Greenberg's Holocaust Theology
  • 6. Modern Orthodoxy and Religious Truth
  • 7. On Revelation, Heresy, and Mesorah-from Louis Jacobs to the TheTorah.com
  • Part Two. Past and Present
  • 8. What Is "Modern" in Modern Orthodoxy?
  • 9. Can Modern Orthodoxy Survive?
  • 10. Where Have All the Rabbis Gone? The Changing Character of the Orthodox Rabbinate and its Causes
  • 11. Modern Orthodox Responses to the Liberalization of Sexual Mores
  • 12. "The Road Not Taken" and "The One Less Traveled": The Greenberg-Lichtenstein Exchange and Contemporary Orthodoxy
  • Editors and Contributors
  • Index