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Author Borowitz, Eugene B.

Title Renewing the covenant : a theology for the postmodern Jew / Eugene B. Borowitz.

Publication Info. Philadelphia, Pa. : Jewish Publication Society, 1996.

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Edition 1st pbk. ed.
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 319 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-310) and index.
Contents ""Half-Title""; ""Title ""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents ""; ""Preface ""; ""Introduction: The History That Shapes Us""; ""Jewish Religious Experience in Our Time ""; ""1. Modernization: The Secular Messiah ""; ""2. Modernity: The Betrayer ""; ""3. Through the Shadowed Valley ""; ""A Postliberal Theology of Jewish Duty ""; ""I. God, the Ground of Our Values""; ""4. God-Israel-Torah: Our Holistic Context ""; ""5. Not Absolutely Absolute""; ""6. More than Immanent ""; ""7. Reaching for Transcendence ""; ""8. Sparks: The Transcendent in the Everyday ""; ""9. The Who/What of God ""
""10. What Does God Still Do?""""II. Israel, the People That Creates the Way ""; ""11. What Can We Do about Our Will-to-Do-Evil? ""; ""12. The Social Side of Selfhood ""; ""13. Fully Human, Fully Jewish ""; ""14. The Sparks of Chosenness ""; ""15. Covenant, Not Chosenness ""; ""16. The Dialectic of Living in Covenant ""; ""III. The Torah Born of Covenant ""; ""17. When God Dominates ""; ""18. When Community Takes Priority ""; ""19. Knowing What God Wants of Us ""; ""20. The Jewish Self ""; ""Afterword ""; ""Glossary ""; ""Two Bibliographical Notes ""; ""Index ""
Summary Annotation Borowitz creatively explores his theory of Covenant, linking self to folk and God through the contemporary idiom of relationship.
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Subject Judaism -- 20th century.
Judaism.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Commandments (Judaism) -- History of doctrines -- 20th century.
Commandments (Judaism) -- History of doctrines.
Commandments (Judaism)
Covenants -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- History of doctrines -- 20th century.
Covenants -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- History of doctrines.
Covenants -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Borowitz, Eugene B. Renewing the covenant. 1st pbk. ed. Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 1996 0827606273 (DLC) 91023536 (OCoLC)43624313
ISBN 9780827609853 (electronic book)
082760985X (electronic book)
0827606273
9780827606272