God in search of man : (Record no. 11821)

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Classification number BM 560
Item number .H46 1955
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Personal name Heschel, Abraham Joshua,
Dates associated with a name 1907-1972.
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Title God in search of man :
Remainder of title a philosophy of Judaism /
Statement of responsibility, etc Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Place of publication, distribution, etc New York,
Name of publisher, distributor, etc The Noonday Press. Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Date of publication, distribution, etc [1955]
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Extent 437 p.
Dimensions 21 cm.
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Formatted contents note Contents:
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Formatted contents note I. God --<br/>1. Self-understanding of Judaism --<br/>to recover the questions --<br/>philosophy and theology --<br/>situational thinking --<br/>radical self-understanding --<br/>depth-theology --<br/>the self-understanding of religion --<br/>critical reassessment --<br/>intellectual honesty --<br/>philosophy as a perspective --<br/>elliptic thinking --<br/>religion of philosophy --<br/>a way of thinking --<br/>metaphysics and meta-history --<br/>a challenge to philosophy --<br/>the worship of reason --<br/>ideas and events --<br/>the philosophy of Judaism --<br/>2. Ways to his presence --<br/>the Bible is absent --<br/>memory and insight --<br/>man's quest for God --<br/>"seek ye my face" --<br/>three ways --<br/>3. The sublime --<br/>the grand premise --<br/>power, beauty, grandeur --<br/>the distrust of faith --<br/>on the sublime in the Bible --<br/>the beautiful and the sublime --<br/>the sublime is not the ultimate --<br/>horror and exaltation --<br/>4. Wonder --<br/>a legacy of wonder --<br/>a tiny screw --<br/>two kinds of wonder --<br/>"stank still and consider" --<br/>"for thy continual marvels" --<br/>he alone knows --<br/>5. The sense of mystery --<br/>"far off and deep" --<br/>in awe and amazement --<br/>"where shall wisdom be found?" --<br/>two kinds of ignorance --<br/>we apprehend and cannot comprehend --<br/>"hidden are the things that we see" --<br/>6. The enigma is not solved --<br/>God dwells "in deep darkness" --<br/>a loaf of bread --<br/>the ineffable name --<br/>the mystery is not God --<br/>beyond the mystery is mercy --<br/>three attitudes --<br/>God is not eternally silent --<br/>7. Awe --<br/>"as the great abyss" --<br/>the beginning of wisdom is awe --<br/>the meaning of awe --<br/>awe and fear --<br/>awe precedes faith --<br/>return to reverence --<br/>8. Glory --<br/>the glory is the ineffable --<br/>the glory is not a thing --<br/>the glory is the presence of God --<br/>the living presence --<br/>the knowledge of the glory --<br/>blindness to the wonder --<br/>hardness of heart --<br/>9. The world --<br/>the worship of nature --<br/>the disillusionment --<br/>the desanctification of nature --<br/>what is given is not the ultimate --<br/>the contingency of nature --<br/>the fallacy of isolation --<br/>nature in adoration of God --<br/>a thing through God --<br/>the question of amazement --<br/>10. A question addressed to us --<br/>metaphysical loneliness --<br/>not a scientific problem --<br/>beyond definitions --<br/>the principle of incompatibility --<br/>the dimension of the ineffable --<br/>the awareness of transcendent meaning --<br/>the sense of wonder in insufficient --<br/>the argument from design --<br/>religion begins with wonder and mystery --<br/>a question addressed to us --<br/>"a palace full of light" --<br/>what to do with wonder --<br/>11. An ontological presupposition --<br/>moments of insight --<br/>the encounter with the unknown --<br/>preconceptual thinking --<br/>religion is the response to the mystery --<br/>to rise above our wisdom --<br/>ultimate concern is an act of worship --<br/>we praise before we prove --<br/>an ontological presupposition --<br/>the disparity of experience and expression 12. About the meaning of God --<br/>the minimum of meaning --<br/>two corollaries --<br/>God's part in human insight --<br/>the role of time --<br/>the religious situation --<br/>moments --<br/>an answer in disguise --<br/>13. God in search of man --<br/>"where art thou?" --<br/>faith is an event --<br/>a flash in the darkness --<br/>return to God is an answer to Him --<br/>a spiritual event --<br/>14. Insight --<br/>hear, o Israel --<br/>the initiative of man --<br/>"the eye of the heart" --<br/>"doors for the soul" --<br/>15. Faith --<br/>"canst thou by searching find out God?" --<br/>no faith at first sight --<br/>faith is attachment --<br/>the embarrassment of faith --<br/>faith includes faithfulness --<br/>16. Beyond insight --<br/>within the reach of conscience --<br/>God is the subject --<br/>adverbs --<br/>oneness is the standard --<br/>from insight to action --<br/>only insights and nothing else? --<br/>II. Revelation --<br/>17. The idea of revelation --<br/>man with Torah --<br/>why study the problem? --<br/>we forgot the question --<br/>the dogma of man's self-sufficiency --<br/>the idea of man's unworthiness --<br/>the distance between God and man --<br/>the dogma of God's total silence --<br/>the personal analogy --<br/>18. The prophetic understatement --<br/>the idea, the claim, the result --<br/>what is prophetic inspiration? --<br/>words have many meanings --<br/>the prophetic understatement --<br/>the language of grandeur and mystery --<br/>descriptive and indicative words --<br/>responsive interpretation 19. The mystery of revelation --<br/>revelation and the experience or revelation --<br/>the mystery of revelation --<br/>the negative theology of revelation --<br/>to imagine is to pervert --<br/>the elimination of anthropomorphism --<br/>like no other event --<br/>20. The paradox of Sinai --<br/>the paradox of prophecy --<br/>in deep darkness --<br/>beyond the mystery --<br/>the two aspects --<br/>was Sinai an illusion? --<br/>a way of thinking an ecstasy of God --<br/>21. A religion of time --<br/>thought and time --<br/>the God of Abraham --<br/>the category of uniqueness --<br/>the chosen day --<br/>the uniqueness of history --<br/>escape to the timeless --<br/>seeds of eternity --<br/>immune to despair --<br/>evolution and revelation --<br/>22. Process and event --<br/>process and event --<br/>to see the past in the present tense --<br/>23. Israel's commitment --<br/>attachment to events --<br/>the memory of a commitment --<br/>loyalty to a moment --<br/>a word of honor --<br/>life without commitment --<br/>revelation is a beginning --<br/>24. An examination of the prophets --<br/>what sort of proof? --<br/>the mistaken notion --<br/>is revelation explainable? --<br/>are the prophets reliable? --<br/>a product of insanity --<br/>self-delusion --<br/>a pedagogical invention --<br/>confusion --<br/>the spirit of the age --<br/>the subconscious --<br/>there are no proofs --<br/>25. The Bible and the world --<br/>Is the Bible an illusion? --<br/>is God absent everywhere? --<br/>the place of the Bible in the world --<br/>what the Bible did --<br/>no words more knowing --<br/>the singularity of the Bible --<br/>how to account for it --<br/>the omnipotence of the Bible --<br/>precious to God --<br/>holiness in words --<br/>Israel as evidence --<br/>how to share the certainty of Israel --<br/>not because of proof 26. Faith with the prophets --<br/>faith with the prophets --<br/>origin and presence --<br/>the frontier of the spirit --<br/>not a book --<br/>"cast me not away" --<br/>27. The principle of revelation --<br/>revelation is not a chronological issue --<br/>the text as it is --<br/>revelation is not a monologue --<br/>the voice according to man --<br/>wisdom, prophecy, and God --<br/>the unrevealed Torah --<br/>the Torah is in exile --<br/>idea and expression --<br/>commonplace passages --<br/>harsh passages --<br/>the Bible is not a utopia --<br/>continuous understanding --<br/>the oral Torah was never written down --<br/>III. Response --<br/>28. A science of deeds --<br/>the supreme acquiescence --<br/>a leap of action --<br/>the deed is the risk --<br/>our ultimate embarrassment --<br/>a meta-ethical approach --<br/>the partnership of God and man --<br/>ways, not laws --<br/>the divinity of deeds --<br/>to do what he is --<br/>likeness in deeds --<br/>"the good drive" --<br/>ends in need of man --<br/>a science of deeds --<br/>29. More than inwardness --<br/>by faith alone? --<br/>the error or formalism --<br/>no dichotomy --<br/>spirituality is not the way --<br/>autonomy and heteronomy --<br/>the law --<br/>a spiritual order --<br/>a theological exaggeration --<br/>30. The art of being --<br/>only deeds and nothing else? --<br/>a cry for creativity --<br/>God asks for the heart --<br/>why Kavanah? --<br/>to do in order to be --<br/>the immanence of God in deeds --<br/>to be present --<br/>31. Kavanah --<br/>attentiveness --<br/>appreciation --<br/>integration --<br/>beyond Kavanah 32. Religious behaviorism --<br/>religious behaviorism --<br/>Spinoza and Mendelssohn --<br/>Judaism and legalism --<br/>the fundamental importance of agada --<br/>Torah is more than law --<br/>beyond Halacha --<br/>Pan-halachism --<br/>a religion without faith --<br/>dogmas are not enough --<br/>the four cubits --<br/>33. The problem of polarity --<br/>Halacha and Agada --<br/>quantity and quality --<br/>Halacha without Agada --<br/>Agada without Halacha --<br/>the polarity of Judaism --<br/>the tension between Halacha and Agada --<br/>regularity and spontaneity --<br/>the value of habit --<br/>actions teach --<br/>34. The meaning of observance --<br/>origin and presence --<br/>the meaning of observance --<br/>eternity, not utility --<br/>spiritual meaning --<br/>an answer to the mystery --<br/>adventures of the soul --<br/>"a song every day" --<br/>reminders --<br/>action as reunion --<br/>attachment to the holy --<br/>the ecstasy of deeds --<br/>35. Mitsvah and sin --<br/>the meaning of mitzvah --<br/>"for we have sinned" --<br/>"the evil drive" --<br/>"there is but one step" --<br/>36. The problem of evil --<br/>a palace in flames --<br/>"into the hands of the wicked" --<br/>the confusion of good and evil --<br/>the atonement for the holy --<br/>religion is not a luxury --<br/>a supreme distinction --<br/>how to find an ally --<br/>the Torah is an antidote --<br/>is the good a parasite? --<br/>evil is not the ultimate problem --<br/>God and man have a task in common --<br/>the ability to fulfill --<br/>in need of redemption 37. The problem of the neutral --<br/>the isolation of morality --<br/>how to deal with the neutral --<br/>all joy comes from God --<br/>38. The problem of integrity --<br/>vested interests --<br/>alien thoughts --<br/>the escape to suspicion --<br/>the test of Job --<br/>"a diadem with which to boast" --<br/>disgusted polytheism --<br/>the failure of the heart --<br/>39. The self and the non-self --<br/>is desire the measure of all things? --<br/>the conversation of needs --<br/>self-effacement --<br/>regard for the self --<br/>40. The deed redeems --<br/>awareness of inner enslavement --<br/>moments of purity --<br/>contrition --<br/>God is full of compassion --<br/>ends purify motives --<br/>the deed redeems --<br/>"serve him with joy" --<br/>"we spoil and he restores" --<br/>41. Freedom --<br/>the problem of freedom --<br/>freedom is an event --<br/>freedom and creation --<br/>divine concern --<br/>42. The spirit of Judaism --<br/>the meaning of spirit --<br/>the spirit of Judaism --<br/>the art of surpassing civilization --<br/>43. The people Israel --<br/>the meaning of Jewish existence --<br/>thinking compatible with our destiny --<br/>Israel --<br/>a spiritual order --<br/>the dignity of Israel.
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