Faith : Jewish perspectives / edited by Avi Sagi, Dov Schwartz ; assistant editor, Yakir Englander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwartz, Dov, Author.

Contributor:

Englander, Yaḳir.

Sagi, Abraham.

Schwartz, Dov.

Series:

Emunot.

Emunot : Jewish philosophy and Kaballah

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cabala.

Hasidism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (750 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Faith: Jewish Perspectives explores important questions in both modern and premodern Jewish philosophy regarding the idea of faith. Is believing a voluntary action, or do believers find themselves within the experience of faith against their will? Can faith be understood through other means (psychological, epistemic, and so forth), or is it only comprehensible from the inside, that is, from within the religious world? Is a subjective experience of faith fundamentally communicative, meaning that it includes intelligible and transmittable universal elements, or is it a private experience that we can point to or talk about through indirect means (poetic, lyrical, and so forth), but never fully decipher? This book presents various manifestations of the concept of faith in Judaism as a tradition engaged in a dialogue with the outside world. It will function as an opening and an invitation to an ongoing conversation with faith.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction / Sagi, Avi / Schwartz, Dov

1. Conceptual Analysis

Faith as Temptation / Sagi, Avi

On Non-Illusory Faith / Goldman, Eliezer

On Undermining the Beliefs of Others: Religion and the Ethics of Persuasion / Shatz, David

Religious Belief in a Postmodern Age / Ross, Tamar

Faith in the Face of Bereavement and Loss: Coping with the Question of Evil in the World / Zivan, Gili

2. Kabbalah and Hasidism

Faith, Rebellion, and Heresy in the Writings of Rabbi Azriel of Gerona / Kaplan, Lawrence

On the Essence of Faith in Hasidism: An Historical-Theoretical Perspective / Margolin, Ron

"Beyond Reason" On Faith in the Philosophy of Chabad / Schwartz, Dov

Faith and Song in the Poetry of Zelda: On the Mystical Elements in Zelda's Ars Poetica and their Hasidic Origins / Mark, Zvi

3. Persons and Ideas

"My desire for the living God hath constrained me": Belief as Unfulfilled Desire in the Writings of Rabbi Judah Halevi / Lemberger, Dorit

The Strengthening of Faith in Orthodox Discourse: A Reevaluation of Models of Faith / Hershkowitz, Isaac

Hillel Zeitlin in Search of God: An Analysis of Zeitlin's Meditation "The Thirst" / Bar-On, Shraga

A Metamorphosis in the Perception of God in Bialik's Poetry / Weiss, Tzahi

Dialogue and Faith: The Lonely Man of Faith / Schwartz, Dov

Unity and Fragmentation of the Self in Leibowitz's Idea of Faith and their Repercussions: A Critical Perspective / Miron, Ronny

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 27, 2013).

ISBN:

1-61811-304-6

1-61811-283-X

OCLC:

922977330