Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Contemporary Jewry
Angaben zur Quelle:
40,1 (2020) 137-147
Keywords:
Goshen-Gottstein, Alon
;
Sacks, Jonathan,
;
Heschel, Abraham Joshua,
;
Greenberg, Irving,
;
Pluralism Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Idolatry Judaism
Abstract:
Korn reviews Alon Goshen-Gottstein’s analyses of the theories of religious pluralism of Rabbis Abraham Joshua Heschel, Irving Greenberg and Jonathan Sacks in Goshen-Gottstein’s program of constructing a coherent Jewish theology of religion. Among the questions that Goshen-Gottstein asks are: (1) How much does each thinker believe that other religions contain divine truth? (2) How does each thinker know this? (3) What is the difference between religious pluralism and relativism? (4) How much of this pluralism can be based on Jewish law (halachah)? (5) How is religious truth validated? Goshen-Gottstein exposes the differences between these modern pluralists. Korn’s review of Goshen Gottstein also probes what the legitimate limits of Jewish religious pluralism are and whether the traditional concept of idolatry is relevant today.
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