Perfect Goodness and the God of the Jews : : A Contemporary Jewish Theology / / Jerome (Yehuda) Gellman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Gellman, Jerome (Yehuda),
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (202 p.)

That the God of the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature, "the God of the Jews," is perfectly good is challenged by apparently immoral acts of that God, by contemporary standards, as well as by the classic problem of evil. In this book, Jerome Gellman aims to alleviate the first challenge, the so-called ideological critique, for the traditional believer by recommending replacing the God of the Jews with a different God, a "Jewish God," one in whom many traditional Jews have come to believe. And the problem of evil is lightened for the traditional believer, mainly by a possible theodicy explaining much evil. The book is at once analytic in style and Hasidic in broad orientation.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Forward -- Introduction -- 1. My Theological Method -- 2. A Perfectly Good Being -- 3. The God Of The Jews -- 4. The Ideological Critique -- 5. The Argument From Evil -- 6. The Humility Response -- 7. A Response to the Present-Day Ideological Critique- The God of the Jews and a Jewish God -- 8. Hasidic Panpsychism: "A Portion Of God From Above" -- 9. The Multiverse: A Possible Theodicy -- Backward -- Bibliography -- Index