A heart of wisdom : religion and human wholeness / Maurice Friedman.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Friedman, Maurice S.

Series:

• SUNY Series in Religious Studies
• SUNY series in religious studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Religion.
• Religions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on almost half a century of immersion in the world's great religions, coupled with an ever-deepening understanding of the philosophy and phenomenology of religion, the author takes a dialogical approach through which religious reality is not seen as external creed and form or as subjective inspiration, but as the meeting in openness, presentness, immediacy, and mutuality with ultimate reality. Religion has to do with the wholeness of human life. The absolute is found, not just in the universal, but in the particular and the unique. When it promotes a dualism in which the spirit has no binding claim upon life and life falls apart into unhallowed fragments, religion becomes the great enemy of humankind. Maurice Friedman is Professor of Religious Studies, Philosophy, and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University and is Co-Director of the Institute for Dialogical Psychotherapy in San Diego. He is the author of over twenty books, including, Martin Buber: The Life of Dialogue; Martin Buber's Life and Work (3 volumes); Martin Buber and the Eternal; Abraham Joshua Heschel and Elie Wiesel: "You Are My Witnesses" ; and Religion and Psychology: A Dialogical Approach .

Contents:

• ""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""Content""; ""PART ONE: A Way That One Walks""; ""Religion and the Religions""; ""PART TWO: Religions With Which I Have Been In Dialogue""; ""My Dialogue with the Religions""; ""The Biblical Covenant: Exile, Contending, and Trust""; ""Jesus: Image of the Human or Image of God?""; ""Hasidism""; ""PART THREE: Religious Communication""; ""The Meeting of Religion and Human Experience""; ""The Via Humana""
• ""Religious Symbolism and ""Universal"" Religion"" ""Legend, Myth, and Tale""; ""Religion and Literature""; ""Solitude and Community""; ""PART FOUR: The Tension Between Past and Present""; ""Peter Pan's Shadow: Tradition and Modernity""; ""The Dialectic Between Spirit and Form""; ""The Paradox of Religious Leadership""; ""PART FIVE: Religion and Human Wholeness""; ""Spontaneity, Decision, and Personal Wholeness""; ""Religion and Ethics: ""The Way to Do Is to Be""""; ""World View and Existential Trust""; ""Is Religion the Enemy of Humankind?""; ""Back Matter""; ""Notes""; ""INDEX"" ; ""Back Cover""

Notes:

• Includes index.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-240) and index.
• Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4384-0336-4