Tag Archives: anthropomorphic God

Bulletin from History

Posted on March 29, 2022 by Abigail

Bulletin from History The other day, I spoke by telephone to my Israeli first cousin. In her young days, she worked for a British military unit stationed in the region under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for … Continue reading →

Posted in "Absolute Freedom and Terror", Absurdism, Academe, Action, Afterlife, Alienation, Art of Living, Autonomy, Biblical God, bigotry, Childhood, Cities, Class, conformism, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Courage, Courtship, Cultural Politics, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Eternity, Ethics, Evil, Existentialism, Faith, Femininity, Freedom, Friendship, Gender Balance, glitterati, Guilt and Innocence, hegemony, Heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, History, history of ideas, Idealism, Ideality, Identity, Ideology, Immorality, Institutional Power, Jews, Judaism, Law, Legal Responsibility, life and death struggle, Love, Male Power, Martyrdom, Masculinity, Memoir, memory, Modern Women, Modernism, Moral action, Moral evaluation, Moral psychology, morality, Mortality, motherhood, novels, Ontology, Oppression, Past and Future, politics of ideas, post modernism, Power, presence, Propaganda, Psychology, public facade, Public Intellectual, Race, Reading, relationships, Religion, Roles, Romantic Love, Sexuality, social construction, Social Conventions, social ranking, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, Spirituality, status, status of women, Suffering, Terror, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, the profane, the sacred, Theism, Theology, Time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, victimhood, victims, Violence, War, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist | Tagged academic delusions, accidents of birth, accidents of life, anthropomorphic God, beautiful souls, Biblical and modern Israel, British mandate for Palestine, British officers, circumstances, coincidences of life, Department Chair Hebrew university, diaspora Jewry, edge of existence, Hebrew university, Holocaust, Israel Defense Force, Israel's intellectual elite, Israeli family, Jewish Institute of Religion, Jewish jurisprudence, Jewish survival, light unto the nations, love at first sight, personal destiny, picturing God, pogrom, providential coincidence, Rav Tsair, Sabra, smuggling arms, stopping a pogrom, Talmud scholar, the "what if" factor, the butterfly effect, the Haganah, underground fighters, Yishuv | 4 Comments

Michael Wyschogrod

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Abigail

Michael Wyschogrod When the Jewish Review of Books arrived a few days ago, I noticed with pleasure the cover article, “Michael Wyschogrod and the Challenge of God’s Scandalous Love.” Good! I thought. Michael is being attended to and treated as … Continue reading →

Posted in Academe, Action, Afterlife, Alienation, Art of Living, Atheism, Bible, Biblical God, Childhood, Chivalry, Christianity, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Courage, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Eternity, Ethics, Evil, Existentialism, Faith, Freedom, Friendship, Guilt and Innocence, Health, Heroes, hidden God, History, history of ideas, Ideality, Identity, Ideology, Idolatry, Immortality, Institutional Power, Jews, Journalism, Law, Legal Responsibility, life and death struggle, Love, Masculinity, Memoir, memory, Mortality, Oppression, Past and Future, Philosophy, Political, Political Movements, Power, Propaganda, Psychology, Public Intellectual, Reductionism, relationships, Religion, Roles, Social Conventions, Spirituality, Suffering, Terror, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, Theism, Theology, Time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Violence, War, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist | Tagged "Jewish Review of Books", academic colleagueship, academica grievance hearing, American Academy of Religion, anthropomorphic God, Berlin, Biblical God, cancer surgery, chosen people, Christian-Jewish relations, City University of New York, collegial relations, death, defenselessness, Divine closeness, Divine Presence, Edith Wyschogrod, existentialism, father-daughter relation, German police, God's favoritism, God's love, God's personal love, God's scandalous love, Heidegger, interfaith discussion, interfaith group, interfaith negotiation, Jerry L. Martin's "God: an Autobiography as Told to a Philosopher", Jewish and Christian religionists, Jewish orthodoxy, Jewish theologians, Jewish tradition, Kristallnacht, legalism, Leora Batnitzky, Michael Wyschogrod, Michael Wyschogrod's Kierkegaard and Heidegger: The Ontology of Existence, Michael Wyschogrod's The Body of Faith, Nazism, Night of Broken Glass, observant Jews, pan-halachism, particularism and universalism, particularlism, personal God, Phenomenology, philosophy, political defenses, Pope Benedict, Pope John Paul II, post-liberal Protestant theology, problem of evil, Protestant churches, public causes, Public Intellectual, Rabbinic commentary, Rainbow Group, sin, suffering of love, The Covenant, the election, the God of the philosophers, the Jewish God, theologian, theological dialogue, theology, Torah Study, universalism, unmerited suffering, witness, witnessing | 6 Comments

Tag Archives: anthropomorphic God

Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column

Recent Posts