Abraham Joshua Heschel : The Call of Transcendence.
Title:
Abraham Joshua Heschel : The Call of Transcendence.
Author:
Held, Shai.
ISBN:
9780253011305
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (352 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations: Works by Abraham Joshua Heschel -- Introduction -- 1 Wonder, Intuition, and the Path to God -- 2 Theological Method and Religious Anthropology: Heschel among the Christians -- 3 Revelation and Co-Revelation -- 4 The Pathos of the Self-Transcendent God -- 5 "Awake, Why Sleepest Thou, O Lord?": Divine Silence and Human Protest in Heschel's Writings -- 6 The Self That Transcends Itself: Heschel on Prayer -- 7 Enabling Immanence: Prayer in a Time of Divine Hiddenness -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) was a prolific scholar, impassioned theologian, and prominent activist who participated in the black civil rights movement and the campaign against the Vietnam War. He has been hailed as a hero, honored as a visionary, and endlessly quoted as a devotional writer. In this sympathetic, yet critical, examination, Shai Held elicits the overarching themes and unity of Heschel's incisive and insightful thought. Focusing on the idea of transcendence-or the movement from self-centeredness to God-centeredness-Held puts Heschel into dialogue with contemporary Jewish thinkers, Christian theologians, devotional writers, and philosophers of religion.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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