Ethical monotheism, past and present : essays in honor of Wendell S. Dietrich / edited by Theodore M. Vial, Mark A. Hadley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dietrich, Wendell S.

Vial, Theodore M., 1962-

Hadley, Mark A., 1963-

Series:

Brown Judaic studies ; no. 329.

Brown Judaic studies ; no. 329

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and ethics.

Monotheism.

Dietrich, Wendell S.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

viii, 347 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Providence, R.I. : Brown Judaic Studies, [2001]

Contents:

Part 1 Methods and Reasons for Considering Ethical Monotheism

1. Ethical Monotheism When the Word Is Wounded: Wendell Dietrich Reread / Peter Ochs 15

Part 2 Ethical Monotheism in the Nineteenth Century

2. How the Jews Invented Jesus and Muhammed: Christianity and Islam in the Work of Abraham Geiger / Susannah Heschel 49

3. Schleiermacher's Letters on the Occasion and the Crisis of Berlin Jewry / Richard Crouter 74

4. George Eliot's Religious Pilgrimage / Peter C. Hodgson 92

5. Moral Order on the American Frontier: Lutheran Missions in the 1840s / Walter H. Conser, Jr. 120

6. Testing Liberalism's Conceptuality: The Relation of Sin and Evil in Schleiermacher's Theology / Walter E. Wyman, Jr. 138

7. Ethical Monotheism or Ethical Polytheism?: Reflections on Troeltsch, Weber, and James / Mark A. Hadley 155

Part 3 Ethical Monotheism as Contemporary Resource

8. Three Is Not Enough: Jewish Reflections on Trinitarian Thinking / David R. Blumenthal 179

9. Theological Realism / Katherine Sonderegger 196

10. Ethical Monotheism in an Age of Probability: What If God Does Play Dice? / Peter J. Haas 216

11. The Disappearing God of Ethical Monotheism / Robert Gibbs 229

12. Emmanuel Levinas and Ethical Monotheism / David Novak 240

13. The Law of Nature and the Nature of the Law: David Novak and the Role of Natural Law in Judaism / Louis E. Newman 259

14. Pluralism: A Western Commodity or Justice for the Other? / Francis Schussler Fiorenza 278

15. Walzer on Exodus and Prophecy / Jeffrey Stout 307.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1930675062

OCLC:

47745996