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What’s My Relation to God as of Now?
What’s My Relation to God as of Now? From my earliest memories, the question, Is there a God, wasn’t a question I asked. This though, once I grew up, I got to be a philosopher by profession, temperament and conviction. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", Abraham, Abraham and Isaac, agnosticism, akeda, Anselm, Anselm's ontological argument, Aquinas, Aquinas's 5 ways, Ariadne's Thread, art of motherhood, Biblical literalism, breaking up with God, clues to a life, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, connecting life phases, connecting the dots, conversion stories, covenantal relationship, crisis of youth, David Hume, decoding clues, dialectical life, Divine command, divine/human relationship, empty altars, false gods, former believer, Freudian diagnostic, getting to God, God's existence, Hegel, inner logic, ironical attitude, Is there God?, life and art, life attitudes, life compromises, life secret, life's questions, loss of faith, maternal art, meaning of life, open-minded search, ousting divinity, personal God, philosopher of history, philosophical life, philosophy major, philosophy of religion, piety, pilgrimage of the spirit, quarter-life crisis, recuperation, rejecting God, relation to God, relationship with God, relationship's foundation, relationships, repressed desires, retrospection, sad clown, self-discovery, self-inquiry, self-irony, self-understanding, Sigmund Freud, skeptical arguments, striking a pose, stumbling of the soul, truth of a life, turbulent twenties, unbelief, unseen connections, witnessing a life, woman philosopher
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Men Worth Remembering
Men Worth Remembering Michael Wyschogrod was a theologian, philosopher and doer of quiet deeds of rescue for many, me included. Last Monday night, his colleagues organized a memorial meeting for him at Baruch College of The City University of New … Continue reading →
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Tagged 92nd Street Y, Abraham, apostasy, archives at Y, archivist, Authenticity, Barbara Fisher, Bernard Schwartz, bigotry, Christendom, composure, converts, courtship, deicide, duties to parents, duties to self, escape from the Nazis, essayists, ethical monotheism, falling in love, father-daughter relation, filial piety, German guilt, God's love for Jews, God's love for the Jewish people, God's reality, having time, Henry and Rachelle Rosenthal, Henry M. Rosenthal, Holocaust, imagination of the heart, impersonal love, incarnation, innocence, intellectual memoir, Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth, Jewish identity, Jews for Jesus, journal keeping, life assignment, life task, life vocation, Lionel Trilling, Literary Center at Y, literary critics, living spiritually, living truthfully, loving heart, male friendship, Messianic Jews, Nazi executioners, opinion shapers, original sin, parent-child obligation, parent-child relation, passionate love, Pauline theology, personal equilibrium, personal genius, personal love, philosophy students, Poetry Center at Y, politics of religion, popes, practical realism, Presbyterians, realism, sense of reality, sense of self, Shoah, spirituality, survivor's testimony, survivor's witness, The Jewish people, The White Rose, theology of contempt, Trilling biographer, Trinitarian doctrine
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“Conversations with My Foot”
Conversations with My Foot The other day I got an email from Elmer Sprague, my long-time friend and senior colleague. He’d read “It’s Not Enough to be Intelligent” and heard its distress call. As indeed some other friends had. “Dear … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abraham, acupuncture, alternative medicine, chakras, covenant, covenant with Israel, depression, Elmer Sprague, energy work, Evil, F.H. Bradley, force, historical life, holistic healing, Holocaust, Jewish eyes, medical team, meridians, natural forces, neuropathy, past life memory, problem of evil, religion, religious diversity, religious experience, rootlessness, roots, the chi, ying and yang
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