Louis Jacobs and the Quest for a Contemporary Jewish Theology - Couverture rigide

Freud-Kandel, Miri

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1906764883 ISBN 13 : 9781906764883

Editeur : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2023

Synopsis

For Louis Jacobs, the quest―engaging with and thinking about Jewish faith―was a lifelong pursuit. He offered a model for an observant, committed, but intellectually curious Judaism, that empowered individual seekers to address challenges to faith. His theology emerged in the 1960s, a period characterized by general religious crisis. In Orthodox Judaism a battle was under way  for religious control. Generating a widespread controversy known as the ‘Jacobs affair’, his thought offers a lens for examining the trajectory of Orthodoxy. Today, the focus of debate has shifted considerably, reflecting the changing cultural and intellectual concerns of a ‘post-secular’ age. Yet Jacobs’s emphasis on a personal quest is as relevant as ever. This first book-length analysis of his theology unpacks the building blocks of his thought. It argues that, despite its particularities and limitations, his approach can provide a powerful model for contemporary religious seekers in the context of a growing impetus away from established, denominationally bound, forms of religion. Many Orthodox Jews still prefer the certainty of unquestionable religious truth claims, rather than pursuing a subjective search for religious meaning. For those seeking alternative models for the contemporary Jewish quest a reconsideration of Jacobs’s theology can offer valuable tools.

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À propos de l'auteur

Miri Freud-Kandel is Lecturer in Modern Judaism in the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford; Fellow in Modern Judaism at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and co-convenor of the Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary Judaism. She is the author of Orthodox Judaism in Britain Since 1913: An Ideology Forsaken (2006) and co-editor, with Adam S. Ferziger and Steven Bayme, of Yitz Greenberg and Modern Orthodoxy: The Road Not Taken (2019).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1906764883
• ISBN 13: 9781906764883
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 422
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