Reviewing the covenant : Eugene Borowitz and the postmodern revival of Jewish theology / Peter Ochs, editor with Eugene Borowitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Borowitz, Eugene B.

Ochs, Peter, 1950-

Series:

SUNY series in Jewish philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commandments (Judaism)--History of doctrines--20th century.

Commandments (Judaism).

Covenants--Religious aspects--Judaism--History of doctrines--20th century.

Covenants.

Judaism--20th century.

Judaism.

Postmodernism--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Postmodernism.

Borowitz, Eugene B. Renewing the covenant.

Borowitz, Eugene B.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 214 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Reviewing the Covenant, six Jewish philosophers—and one Christian colleague—respond to the work of the renowned Jewish theologian Eugene B. Borowitz, one of the leading figures in the movement of "postmodern" Jewish philosophy and theology. The title recalls Borowitz's earlier book, Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the Postmodern Jew, in which he lent this movement a theological agenda, and the essays in this book respond to Borowitz's call: to revitalize contemporary Judaism by renewing the covenant that binds modern Jews to re-live and re-interpret the traditions of Judaism's past.Together with the introductory and responsive essays by Peter Ochs and Borowitz himself, the essays offer a community of dialogue, an attempt to reason-out how Jewish faith is possible after the Holocaust and how reason itself is possible after the failings of the great "-isms" of the modern world. This dialogue is conducted under the banner of "postmodern Judaism," a daunting term that by the end of the book receives a surprisingly direct meaning, namely, the condition of disillusionment and loss out of which Jews can and must find a third way out of the modern impasse between arrogant rationalism and arrogant religion. Representing a major intellectual response to the leading theologian of liberal Judaism, the book provides a significant indication of future directions in Jewish religious thought.Contributors include Eugene B. Borowitz, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, Susan Handelman, David Novak, Peter Ochs, Thomas W. Ogletree, Norbert M. Samuelson, and Edith Wyschogrod.

Contents:

The emergence of postmodern Jewish theology and philosophy / Peter Ochs Postmodern Judaism: one theologian's view / Eugene B. Borowitz Gene Borowitz' Renewing the Covenant: a theology for the postmodern Jew / Yudit Kornberg Greenberg Reading the Covenant: some postmodern reflections / Edith Wyschogrod Post-modern or chastened modern? Eugene B. Borowitz' vision for Jewish fidelity / Thomas W. Ogletree Is the Covenant a bilateral relationship? a response to Eugene Borowitz' Renewing the Covenant / David Novak A critique of Borowitz' postmodern Jewish theology / Norbert M. Samuelson Borowitz and the postmodern renewal of theology / Peter Ochs 'Im baet, eyma: since you object, let me put it this way / Eugene B. Borowitz "Crossing and recrossing the void": a letter to Gene / Susan Handelman

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791492796

0791492796

9780585315904

0585315906

OCLC:

45728065