Post-Modern Jewish God-Talk

God-talk has not come easily to Jews in recent generations, for now-familiar reasons: the age-old Jewish suspicion of claims to personal religious experience or direct divine authority; the modern suspicion that people who continue to believe in traditional religious notions have not fully come to t...

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Published inTikkun Vol. 31; no. 3; p. 72
Main Author Eisen, Arnold M.
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published San Francisco The Institute for Labor and Mental Health 01.08.2016
Duke University Press
Institute of Labor and Mental Health
Subjects
Activism
Current Affairs
General Interest
Holocaust
Jewish people
Postmodernism
Religion
Religious Studies
Theology
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Summary:God-talk has not come easily to Jews in recent generations, for now-familiar reasons: the age-old Jewish suspicion of claims to personal religious experience or direct divine authority; the modern suspicion that people who continue to believe in traditional religious notions have not fully come to terms with the legacy of Marx, Darwin, Freud, and Einstein, et al; Jewish reluctance to stand too much apart from the larger (and secular) elite culture of America; the formidable obstacle of the Holocaust, barring the way to confidence or willingness to accept that a supreme being of any sort is involved in the world's history; and, not least, the ability of even observant Jews (or perhaps particularly of observant Jews) to get by without thinking much about God, the central seam in the tallit that is their tradition.
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ISSN:0887-9982
2164-0041
DOI:10.1215/08879982-3628452