Theology
How should Jews react to it?
They’ve had an impact on Jewish Renewal.
A common, but false, dichotomy.
Christian scholars want to move beyond the end of the world.
Reflections on the 150th yahrzeit of President Lincoln.
Justice would come to the oppressive Greeks in the afterlife.
Although the prophet Samuel declares that “the Glory of Israel does not lie,” most medieval Christian theologians, going back to Augustine, believed that although God. . .
One of the great debates about Moses Maimonides’ philosophical magnum opus, the Guide of the Perplexed, concerns the degree to which it should be taken. . .
A half-century ago, American Jewry boasted a number of creative and sophisticated theologians. There are no such figures today. Reflecting on the impact of certain theologians. . .
In a recent book, James A. Diamond explores how the philosophical ideas of Moses Maimonides were received by medieval and modern Jewish thinkers. Diamond, in. . .
A number of modern Jewish thinkers, beginning with Martin Buber, have tried to create a theology based on the belief that Judaism’s core truths lie. . .
Academic study of the Bible in order to shed light on its origins presents a theological minefield; but this does not mean that traditionalist Jews. . .
“If you take away the Jewish contribution, there’d be no Christianity. We cannot explain our existence without your existence.” (Interview by Rick Richman).