A Touch of the Sacred
A Theologian's Informal Guide to Jewish Belief
1st Edition
Published on 13. April 2015
256 pages
978-1-58023-636-2 (ISBN)
Description
Our faith in God and our love of Judaism are tested daily by our turbulent world and personal challenges. In this special book, Dr. Eugene Borowitz, the leading theologian of liberal Judaism, offers a highly accessible guide to the questions we've all wrestled with in our spiritual lives. In these pages, Borowitz shares with you his rich inner life, which draws from both the rational and mystical Jewish thought that have inspired two generations of rabbis, cantors, and educators, and will now inspire you.
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Seeking the Sacred One
- 1. We Can't Talk about God but We Must
- 2. Where Is God? Answering a Nine-Year-Old
- 3. God and Mystery
- 4. The Many Meanings of "God Is One"
- 5. Is Our God Experience Authentic?
- 6. The Jewish Idea(s) of God
- 7. Relating to God: Substance or Style?
- 8. Accepting the World God Willed
- Part II. Doing Holy Deeds
- 9. Being Close to God
- 10. The Act and Art of Praying
- 11. Moses' Prayer for Healing-and Ours
- 12. How Shall We Comfort the Mourner?
- 13. Traditional Words of Condolence
- 14. A New Phase in Jewish Piety
- 15. The Power of Creating New Religious Customs
- 16. Fanaticism and Zeal
- 17. Who Is a Mentsh?
- Part III. Creating Sacred Community
- 18. A Mystical Model for Leaders
- 19. How an Agnostic Community Came to Seek Spirituality
- 20. The Appeal of Transdenominational Judaism
- 21. A Conflict over Interfaith Dialogue
- 22. How Liberal and Orthodox Jews Can Coexist
- 23. The Special Risk of Liberalizing Judaism
- 24. Catholic-Jewish Dialogue: An Autobiographical Note
- 25. The Historical Case for Interfaith Dialogue
- 26. Building a Community of "God-Fearers"
- Part IV. Reading Sacred Texts
- 27. Letting the Psalms Speak to You
- 28. Reliving the Sinai Experience Each Year
- 29. "Weighing" the Texts That Instruct Us
- 30. Putting Texts in Context.
- 31. Religious Authority in Judaism
- 32. Integrating Jewish Law and Jewish Ethics
- 33. Jewish Decision Making
- 34. Innovation in Judaism: Yesterday and Today
- Part V. Thinking about Holiness
- 35. Why Do We Need Theology?
- 36. Theology as an Afterthought
- 37. Why Historical Theology Won't Do.
- 38. Jewish God-Talk's Four Criteria
- 39. The Brain-Heart Interplay in Faith
- 40. Four Ways to Understand "God Says ."
- 41. Clarifying Some Feminist Ideas.
- 42. Jewish Beliefs about Evil
- 43. The Messianic Hope Today.
- 44. Life after Death
- Part VI. Learning from Holy Thinkers
- 45. Why I Am a Theologian Rather than a Philosopher.
- 46. Seven People Who Shaped Modern Jewish Thought
- 47. Rationalist Thinkers and What They Can Teach Us
- 48. Two Misunderstood Messages of Martin Buber
- 49. Mordecai Kaplan: Ethnicity in Modern Judaism
- 50. The Greatest Contemporary Orthodox Jewish Philosopher
- 51. The Ethics "Mystery" and Abraham Joshua Heschel
- 52. Covenant Theology: An Autobiographical Note.
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- Copyright
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