Sacred attunement : a Jewish theology / Michael Fishbane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fishbane, Michael, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Doctrines.

Judaism.

Spiritual life--Judaism.

Spiritual life.

Hermeneutics--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Hermeneutics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Contemporary theology, and Jewish theology in particular, Michael Fishbane asserts, now lies fallow, beset by strong critiques from within and without. For Jewish reality, a coherent and wide-ranging response in thoroughly modern terms is needed. Sacred Attunement is Fishbane's attempt to renew Jewish theology for our time, in the larger context of modern and postmodern challenges to theology and theological thought in the broadest sense. The first part of the book regrounds theology in this setting and opens up new pathways through nature, art, and the theological dimension as a whole. In the second section, Fishbane introduces his hermeneutical theology-one grounded in the interpretation of scripture as a distinctly Jewish practice. The third section focuses on modes of self-cultivation for awakening and sustaining a covenant theology. The final section takes up questions of scripture, authority, belief, despair, and obligation as theological topics in their own right. The first full-scale Jewish theology in America since Abraham J. Heschel's God in Search of Man and the first comprehensive Jewish philosophical theology since Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption, Sacred Attunement is a work of uncommon personal integrity and originality from one of the most distinguished scholars of Judaica in our time.

Contents:

Toward theology

A Jewish hermeneutical theology

Religious practice and forms of attention

Forms of thought and living theology.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-231) and index.

ISBN:

9786612069833

OCLC:

646810176