A Plausible God : Secular Reflections on Liberal Jewish Theology.
Title:
A Plausible God : Secular Reflections on Liberal Jewish Theology.
Author:
Silver, Mitchell.
ISBN:
9780823226832
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (202 pages)
Contents:
Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part 1 -- Chapter 1: The New God's Relevance -- Chapter 2: A First Pass at Defining "God": The All and the One -- Chapter 3: A Second Pass -- God as the Potential for Goodness -- Chapter 4: The Uses of Belief in God -- Chapter 5: The Usefulness of a Plausible God -- Chapter 6: Someone to Watch Over Me -- Chapter 7: Talking to and About God -- Part 2 -- Chapter 8: Avoiding Idolatry -- Chapter 9: A Matter of Taste -- Chapter 10: Truth and Beauty -- Reference Matter -- Appendix A: The Ineffable -- Appendix B: The Untenable God -- Appentic C: Theories of Truth and Credibility -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
At least since the seventeenth century, the traditional God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam has been under pressure to conform to the scientific worldview. Across the monotheistic traditions there has emerged a liberalconception of God compatible with a thoroughgoing naturalism. For many, this liberal new God is the only credible God. But is it a useful God? Does belief in so malleable a deity come from, or lead to, different political, moral, psychological, or aesthetic phenomena from atheism?A Plausible God evaluates the new God by analyzing the theology of three recent Jewish thinkers -Mordechai Kaplan, Michael Lerner, and Arthur Green-and compares faith in the new God to disbelief in any gods.
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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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