ISBN:
9781550027396
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
338 S. ; 23 cm.
Erscheinungsjahr:
2007
DDC:
296.4/7 22
Schlagwort(e):
Plaut, Wolf Gunther
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Jewish sermons
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Judaism
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Judaism
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Judaism
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Jewish sermons
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Predigt
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Judentum
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Canada
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Jewish sermons, English
Kurzfassung:
Religion. The individual and the cosmos ; Is religion necessary? ; Faith and religion in a secular age -- Faith and God. How can I believe in God? ; The search for a personal faith ; The pursuit of God ; I pray because-- ; Faith as a means to trump pessimism ; The need to believe ; Who is the God I can believe in? ; Believing in a God who is not almighty -- Ethics and values. On having time ; Love thyself ; Word and deed ; The meaning of life ; The challenge of freedom ; Our disposable society -- Being a Jew. Why remain Jews? ; The impossibility of being a Jew ; The counterforce in human history ; Who is a Jew? ; Exile and Israel ; God's laughter ; The rescue of God ; Jewish universalism -- Reform Judaism. It's easy to be Orthodox and hard to be Reform ; Conforming and reforming ; What it means to be religious ; From "we" to "I" ; The sins of reform -- Israel. Israel ; Surrendering Jerusalem ; Is Israel necessary? ; Our responsibility to Israel ; My Israel -- Age and generations. The descent from the mountain ; Becoming "old" -- Death. Escape from reality ; Death ; The search for personal immortality ; On life and afterlife ; God and my wife -- Envoi. Chazak v'Ematz.
Anmerkung:
Includes index and W. Gunther Plaut bibliography, 1997-2003: p. 327-336
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