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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I am surprised, not to read of his call for such a thing, but at never having heard of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel's call for the creation of an office to oversee the moral behavior of United States armed forces in times of war. I see that modern Rabbis were not the first to have to justify their speaking out on political matters, either (as one rabbi recently argued for being allowed, over the objections of congregants, to give sermons on political topics). I am also dismayed to learn that even as early as 1965 it was clear that war crimes were taking place in Vietnam, but I love the closing sentence of Rabbi Heschel's essay on The reasons for my involvement in the Peace Movement: "For all the majesty of the office of the President of the United States, he cannot claim greater majesty than God Himself." (a bit like the scene in the first episode of Muhteşem Yüzyıl (Turkish pronunciation: [muhteˈʃɛm ˈjyzjɯl], English: The Magnificent Century) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhteşem_Yüzyıl in which his new subjects shout at the incoming Sultan to remember that he is not above God. Nice!) About the author: quoting from the book's dust jacket, "[Dr. Abraham Joshua Heschel], as a revered and beloved teacher, he impressed on his students, first at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and then during his years as Professor of Ethics and Mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the spiritual imperatives of prayer, of ecumenism, of social decency." About the book: quoting from the book's dust jacket, "This first collection of Dr. Heschel's essays is arranged in five groups: 'Existence and Celebration,' 'No Time for Neutrality,' 'Toward a Just Society,' 'No Religion is an Island' (on ecumenism), and 'The Holy Dimension.'. . .The book also includes an introduction to Dr. Heschel's life and thought by the editor, his daughter, Susannah Heschel, who holds the Abba Hillel Silver chair in Jewish Studies at Case Western Reserve University. . ." This work includes indices, notes and a list of sources. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Dr. Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-72), one of the foremost Jewish savants of our time, was internationally known as scholar, author, activist, and theologian." "In his lifetime Heschel spoke and published widely. Arriving in the United States in flight from the brutalities of Nazi Germany, he never forgot that the search for the divine and for human spirituality is inseparable from the search for a just society. As a revered and beloved teacher, he impressed on his students, first at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and then during his many years as Professor of Ethics and Mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the spiritual imperatives of prayer, of ecumenism, of social decency." "This first collection of Dr. Heschel's essays is arranged in five groups: "Existence and Celebration," "No Time for Neutrality," "Toward a Just Society," "No Religion Is an Island" (on ecumenism), and "The Holy Dimension." The essays include a tribute to Reinhold Niebuhr and a discussion of Father Bernard Haring, the moral theologian. The appendix contains Carl Stern's famous television interview with Dr. Heschel, recorded shortly before his death." "The book also includes an introduction to Dr. Heschel's life and thought by the editor, his daughter, Susannah Heschel, who holds the Abba Hillel Silver chair in Jewish Studies at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She is also the editor of the landmark collection On Being a Jewish Feminist."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I am also dismayed to learn that even as early as 1965 it was clear that war crimes were taking place in Vietnam, but I love the closing sentence of Rabbi Heschel's essay on The reasons for my involvement in the Peace Movement: "For all the majesty of the office of the President of the United States, he cannot claim greater majesty than God Himself."
(a bit like the scene in the first episode of Muhteşem Yüzyıl (Turkish pronunciation: [muhteˈʃɛm ˈjyzjɯl], English: The Magnificent Century)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhteşem_Yüzyıl
in which his new subjects shout at the incoming Sultan to remember that he is not above God. Nice!) ( )