Religious truth : towards a Jewish theology of religion /

In this collection, essays by leading scholars explore the notion of truth in Jewish religious discourse and suggest ways in which upholding the idea of one's own religion as true can be reconciled with an appreciation of other faiths and enable interfaith dialogue.

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Other Authors: Goshen-Gottstein, Alon (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press, 2020.
Series:Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. The Scope of Religious Truth: Project Overview
  • Alon Goshen-Gottstein1. Old-Fashioned Truth, Telic Truth, and Interreligious Understanding
  • Jerome Yehuda Gellman2. History and Truth in Religion
  • Stanislaw Krajewski3. The Cosmic Eye and Its Pupil: Divine Perfection and the Mediation of Universal and Particular Truth in Rabbinic Theology
  • Cass Fisher4. Da'at: Universalizing a Hasidic Value
  • Avraham Yizhak (Arthur) Green5. The Truth Beyond and Beyond Truth: Religious Truth in Teachings of the Breslav Tradition and Their Contemporary Interreligious Application
  • Alon Goshen-Gottstein6. The Cognitive Value of Religious Truth Statements: Rabbi A.I. Kook and Postmodernism
  • Tamar RossReligious Truth: A Process Summary
  • Alon Goshen-GottsteinBibliographyNotes on the ContributorsIndex.