Contemporary covenantal thought : interpretations of covenant in the thought of David Hartman and Eugene Borowitz / Simon Cooper.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Refusing to accept anything but ever-increasing levels of human responsibility within a religious framework, covenantal thinkers audaciously suggest that the covenant empowers humanity, as it binds and inhibits divinity. This is a reformulation of recurrent issues within the Jewish tradition, and one which pays homage to the modern context from which it emerges. Hartman and Borowitz grew up in the same mid-century American academic and social environment, and the product of that upbringing has a significant impact on the subsequent theories which they promote. Both thinkers have attracted a considerable following, but very few scholars have discussed them together. Cooper here for the first time works toward understanding their work in comparison with each other, and with covenant as the central focus and framework.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. Introduction: The Parameters of Covenantal Thought -- Chapter Two. American Jewish Theology and Society in the Post-Holocaust Period -- Chapter Three. Covenantal Thought: Its Sources and Contexts -- Chapter Four. Contemporary Jewish Philosophy's Covenantal Framework The Autonomous Thrust in Judaism -- Chapter. Five Covenantal Ethic s and Covenantal Law -- Chapter Six. The Boundaries of Covenantal Responsibility: Messianism, the Holocaust, and Historical Progress -- Chapter Seven. Conclusions The Achievements and Problematic s of Contemporary Covenantal Thought -- Glossary of Hebrew Terms -- Bibliography -- INDEX -- CITATIONS INDEX

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