Language:
English
Year of publication:
2015
Titel der Quelle:
Melilah - New Series; Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
12 (2015) 131-144
Keywords:
Buber, Martin,
;
Jonas, Hans,
;
Lévinas, Emmanuel
;
God Philosophy
;
Secularization (Theology)
;
Atheism
;
Jewish philosophers
Abstract:
This paper uses the term “secular theology” to criticize Jewish-religious approaches on the one hand and atheism on the other hand. It shows that the assumption of many that atheism stands at the centre of secular thought is baseless. The first part, largely assuming an Israeli context, claims that this assumption is problematic from a sociological and historical perspective. The second part follows Jewish philosophers who use theological ideas at the centre of their thought, and at the same time do not fit into the realm of Jewish religious writing of the 20th century. The distinction between the ontological and the ethical “role” of God in the theology of Hans Jonas, Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Buber, is used to create new borderlines between the secular and the religious – “soft” borders that do not exclude God from secular world-views.
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