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The Triumph of Life

A Narrative Theology of Judaism
  • ISBN-13: 9780827615212
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
  • By Rabbi Irving Greenberg
  • Price: AUD $80.99
  • Stock: 2 in stock
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  • Local release date: 01/11/2024
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 400 pages Weight: 700g
  • Categories: Judaism [HRJ]
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The Triumph of Life is Rabbi Irving Greenberg's magnum opus--a narrative of the relationship between God and humanity as expressed in the Jewish journey through modernity, the Holocaust, the creation of Israel, and the birth of Judaism's next era. Greenberg describes Judaism's utopian vision of a world, created by a God who loves life, who invites humans to live on the side of life and enables the forces of life to triumph over death. The Bible proclaims our mission of tikkun olam, repairing the world, such that every human image of God is sustained in the fullness of our dignity. To achieve this ideal, Judaism offers the method of covenant--realistic, personal, incremental--a partnership between God and humanity across generations in which human beings grow ever more responsible for world repair. Greenberg calls on us to redirect humanity's unprecedented power in modernity to overcome poverty, oppression, inequality, sickness, and war. The work of covenant requires an ethic of power--one that advances life collaboratively and at a human pace--so that the Jewish people and all humanity can bring the world toward the triumph of life.
Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. A Vision of Life in a Redeemed World 1. Creation and the Dignity of Life 2. Human Beings in the Image of God 3. Tikkun Olam and the Triumph of Life 4. The Biblical Struggle of Life against Death 5. The Commandments and the Supremacy of Life Part 2. Covenant as Method of World Repair 6. The Covenantal Method of Repairing the World 7. Relationship and Choice in the Covenant 8. Humanity in the Covenantal Partnership 9. Covenantal Time Part 3. The Covenant in the Third Era 10. Modernity 11. The Holocaust 12. Responses after the Holocaust 13. The State of Israel 14. Judaism in the Third Era Table. The Three Great Eras of Jewish History Notes Index
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