About this title: The author, a Rabbi, contends that religious commitment can be accessible and attractive to everyone, regardless of how they live or what their religious convictions are. He does not attempt to "prove" God's existence, nor does he make a case for any particular religious group, instead he writes simply and gracefully about the need to make sense ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Summit Books
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780671680268ISBN:0671680269
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Audience: General/trade. Very good copy. Pages are clean and crisp with no markings. DJ has no tears and shows only minor wear. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Summit Books, New York
Date Published: 1989
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. 1989 Summit soft cover. NOT EX LIB! Clean, lightly toned pages with a few bent page corners, spine is not creased, some light edgewear, mild cover scuffing. 208 p. Glued binding. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780671680275ISBN:0671680277
Description: Very good. Great book! Clean pages, no marks, light aging. Shiny cover, one faint spine crease. From Publishers Weekly Using an approach that is ""pragmatic and ecumenical rather than didactic, "" rabbi and spiritual counselor Kushner asserts that all people need God. ""This is an inspirational book for all, no matter whether religious or skeptic, "" wro. read more
"The title is ironical (a la C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity). The unspoken answer to the question is: "You do!" This is especially easy to miss, being a pro-religion book on my religion shelf, which is populated mostly by books critical of religion.
This was assigned reading at my Catholic high school, and competently performed its intended purpose: indoctrination into monotheism. It probably staved off my inevitable atheism for 6, maybe 12 months. This is the only reason it gets a second star, being that I disagree with its premises so strenuously; it must have been fairly thought provoking.
In his defense, Kushner was not heavy-handed, and structured his arguments as an impartial analysis, coming down firmly on the side of belief. If I were feeling less charitable, I might characterize that tactic as delusory or even insidious, but given that many atheism books do the same thing, I can hardly complain. Let's face it: it is a fraught, contentious subject matter."
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