This gracefully argued book, with its sensitive insights into the beliefs of a revolutionary Jewish thinker, makes a powerful contribution to modern Judaism and to contemporary American religious thought.
This gracefully argued book, with its sensitive insights into the beliefs of a revolutionary Jewish thinker, makes a powerful contribution to modern Judaism and to contemporary American religious thought.
Mel Scult is Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and a member of the history faculty at the CUNY Graduate School. He is author of Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century: A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan and editor of Communings of the Spirit: The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, Volume 1: 1913-1934.
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Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. Excommunications: Kaplan and Spinoza 2. Self-Reliance: Kaplan and Emerson 3. Nationalism and Righteousness: Ahad Ha-Am and Matthew Arnold 4. Universalism and Pragmatism: Felix Adler, William James, and John Dewey 5. Kaplan and Peoplehood: Judaism as a Civilization and Zionism 6. Kaplan and His God: An Ambivalent Relationship 7. Kaplan's Theology: Beyond Supernaturalism 8. Salvation: The Goal of Religion 9. Salvation Embodied: The Vehicle of Mitzvot 10. Mordecai the Pious: Kaplan and Heschel 11. The Law: Halakhah and Ethics 12. Kaplan and the Problem of Evil: Cutting the Gordian Knot Conclusion Appendix: "Thirteen Wants" of Mordecai Kaplan Reconstructed Notes Selected Bibliography and Note on Sources Index
Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. Excommunications: Kaplan and Spinoza 2. Self-Reliance: Kaplan and Emerson 3. Nationalism and Righteousness: Ahad Ha-Am and Matthew Arnold 4. Universalism and Pragmatism: Felix Adler, William James, and John Dewey 5. Kaplan and Peoplehood: Judaism as a Civilization and Zionism 6. Kaplan and His God: An Ambivalent Relationship 7. Kaplan's Theology: Beyond Supernaturalism 8. Salvation: The Goal of Religion 9. Salvation Embodied: The Vehicle of Mitzvot 10. Mordecai the Pious: Kaplan and Heschel 11. The Law: Halakhah and Ethics 12. Kaplan and the Problem of Evil: Cutting the Gordian Knot Conclusion Appendix: "Thirteen Wants" of Mordecai Kaplan Reconstructed Notes Selected Bibliography and Note on Sources Index
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