Our Lives As Torah: Finding God in Our Own Stories - Couverture souple

Ochs, Carol

 
9780787944735: Our Lives As Torah: Finding God in Our Own Stories
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0787944734 ISBN 13 : 9780787944735
Editeur : Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 2001

Synopsis

In this powerful book, Carol Ochs shows us how to develop a personal theology by examining our life stories, learning to recognize God at work in them, and bringing them into conversation with Torah. Using timeless biblical texts as lenses to see the present, she helps us understand who we are and who God is for us by exploring the tightly interwoven basic elements of our lives--our love, suffering, work, bodies, prayer, community, and experiences of death.

Through the process of seeing our experiences in relation to Biblical stories, we begin to recognize our lives as part of the ongoing story of the Jewish people--as Torah. This insight allows us to see these experiences as meaningful, not accidental, and opens us to recognizing God's power in and through all that happens to us. Rather than a collection of random events, our lives are part of the Jewish people's ongoing adventure. Armed with our personally shaped theology, we can face this adventure of living in the vanguard of history with awareness and confidence.

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À propos de l'auteur

CAROL OCHS is director of Graduate Studies and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Brandeis University and taught philosophy at Simmons College in Boston.

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Éditeur
Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0787944734
ISBN 13 
9780787944735
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
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Personne responsable
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