This erudite and thought-provoking book is an excellent introduction to three major religious faiths--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--and their differing views of God, as well as the way these views have shaped the world. Karen Armstrong's personal history includes time spent as a nun in her homeland of England; this fact makes her comparative ...
The author of "The Death of Death, " a "Publishers Weekly" "Best Book of the Year, " explains how Jews have encountered God throughout Jewish history--and today--by exploring the many metaphors for God in the Jewish tradition, how they originated, and what they mean.
Although it is primarily a book about God, this unique volume is more specifically about the ways in which Jews have spoken of and written about God throughout four millennia of history. By looking at the Bible, rabbinic literature, the liturgy, and the work of ancient and modern Jewish theologians, best-selling author and respected rabbi Ronald ...
Early Christology must focus on not simply 'historical' but also theological ideas found in contemporary Jewish thought and practice. In this book, a range of distinguished contributors considers the context and formation of early Jewish and Christian devotion to God alone - the emergence of 'monotheism'. The idea of monotheism is critically ...
Akiva Vroman contends that an eternal past does not exist. His theory that time began on a countable day is based on a simple mathematical law. This text aims to provide an historical synthesis of thought on man's vision of God and reality.
Seeskin explores the natures of Jewish monotheism, worship, and ritual, aided by the insights of the medieval philosopher Moses Maimonedes. Seeskin won the 2001 Koret Jewish Book Award for Philosophy and Thought.
Sommer utilizes a recovered ancient perception of divinity as having more than one body and fluid and unbounded selves to challenge the distinction between monotheism and polytheism.
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