
Knowing God
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Acknowledgment
- 1 A Personal Quest
- Seeking an Honest, Integrated Faith
- The Traditional Stance
- The Modern Reality of Jewish Belief
- My Own Growth into Religious Belief
- Epistemological Moorings
- God in Contemplation versus God in Action and Prayer
- 2 Using Reason to Know God
- Knowing God as One Knows an Object
- Discerning Patterns in Experience: Knowledge through Nonhypothetical Discovery
- Appropriate Methods to Know a Personal God
- 3 Knowing God through Human Action
- Methodology: How Action Affords Theological Knowledge
- Content: Two Examples of What We Learn of God through Action-Duties to Parents and Observance of the Sabbath
- The Role of Law in Effectuating Principles
- The Truth Value and Wisdom of These Theological Claims
- 4 Knowing God through Words of the Divine: Revelation
- Understanding Revelation
- Experiencing Revelation
- 5 Knowing God through Divine Action
- The Related Problem of Evil
- Fusing Conceptions of God
- Differentiating the Two Definitions of God
- God's Justice and Goodness
- Truth at the Price of Consistency and Fantasy
- 6 Knowing God through Human Words: Prayer
- Experiencing God through Prayer
- The Philosophical Problems and Promise of Prayer
- 7 Our Images of God
- Anthropomorphism as a Form of Idolatry
- Images, Creeds, and Symbols
- The Functions of Images in Worship
- How Images Mean
- The Truth of Images
- The Authority of Images
- A Sample Case: Feminine Images for God
- Good and Bad Images
- Epilogue
- Endnotes
- Index
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