God of Abraham
1st Edition
Published on 7. March 1996
385 pages
978-0-19-535946-6 (ISBN)
Description
This cogently argued and richly illustrated book rejects the dichotomy between the God of Abraham and the God of the philosophers to argue that the two are one. In God of Abraham, one of our leading philosophers of religion shows how human values can illuminate our idea of God and how the monotheistic idea of God in turn illuminates our moral, social, cultural, aesthetic, and even ritual understanding. Throughout Goodman draws on a wealth of traditional, philosophical, historical, and anthropological materials, and particularly on a wide range of Jewish sources. He demonstrates how an adequate understanding of the interplay of values with monotheism dissolves many of the longstanding problems of natural theology and ethics and guides us toward a genuinely humanistic moral and social philosophy.
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L. E. Goodman
God of Abraham
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06/1996
Oxford University Press Inc
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1 The Logic of Monotheism
- 2 The Existence of God
- 3 Monotheism and Ethics
- 4 The Doable Good: The Individual and the Community
- 5 Ethical Monism and Ethical Pluralism
- 6 Monotheism and Ritual
- 7 The Biblical Laws of Diet and Sex
- 8 Time, Creation, and the Mirror of Narcissus
- Notes
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- General Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
- Index of Citations
