ISBN:
9781580234436
,
1580234437
Language:
English
Pages:
xix, 143 Seiten
,
23 cm
Edition:
Quality paperback edition
Year of publication:
2012
DDC:
296.3/11
Keywords:
God (Judaism)
;
Spiritual life Judaism
Abstract:
Looks at how the concept of the Jewish God has evolved over the centuries and shows how Judaism can be made more meaningful and relevent to one's life
Abstract:
Running God System 1.0 in a 2.0 world -- The issues with God 1.0. Looking for lightning ; They taught you that in Sunday school? ; God envy -- Upgrades through the centuries. God 1.0 : When the world was flat, God had it easy ; God 1.1 : Therapist with superpowers ; God 1.2 : On the farm with God ; God 1.3 : Discovery of afterlife ; God 1.4 : Arguing with God ; God 1.5 : Maimonides on what God is not ; God 1.6 : Spinoza's spin on God -- Twentieth-century upgrades. God 1.7 : Rabbi Harold Kushner on when bad things happen to good people ; God 1.75 : Rabbi Harold Schulweis says God is in the grammar ; God 1.8 : Rabbi Martin Buber's I-thou ; God 1.9 : Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and praying with our feet -- God 2.0 : God in the Twenty-first Century. God and the big bang ; Finding God on a mesa ; According to what authority? -- Judaism 2.0 : a new understanding of God enables a new understanding of Judaism. Why do I feel attached to Judaism even though I never go to synagogue? ; Who wrote the Torah? ; Does God hear our prayers? ; My life is already overbooked. Why should I make time for Judaism? ; What happens when we die? ; Judaism 2.0 : the upgrade
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-143)
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