Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence Author: Shai Held | Language: English | ISBN:
B00BIP2K4A | Format: EPUB
Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence Description
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.
- File Size: 1347 KB
- Print Length: 352 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0253011264
- Publisher: Indiana University Press (November 11, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BIP2K4A
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Judaism > Theology - #45
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Politics & Social Sciences > Philosophy > Religious - #78
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Religion & Spirituality > Judaism
Clear and beautifully written. A welcome addition for all of us who have struggled to understand Heschel and his place in religious thought. Professor Held has a commanding knowledge of a broad range of theological, philosophical, rabbinic and biblical material and is able to digest and transmit all of this for the serious reader through clear and artful prose - a joy to read.
By Jeffrey Wechselblatt
Having just tasted it, I know already that I'll give it 5 stars! The handful of pages I've read (around page 200) beautifully clarify the meaning of Heschel's book "Man's Quest for God," with which I have wrestled since reading it last summer. The perfect holiday gift to this Christian prayer-aspirer from my wife's brother's Reform Jewish family. Many thanks to you (and all our Abrahamic forebears and fore-thinkers)!
By David Hutcheson-Tipton
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