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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

“Hyper-Idealism and Primitivity”

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Abigail

Hyper-Idealism and Primitivity I’ve been making my way through the spring issue of “The Jewish Review of Books.” It’s far less “in” with the beautiful people than “The New York Review of Books” which commits politicide in prose against the … Continue reading →

Posted in "Absolute Freedom and Terror", Action, Alienation, Autonomy, Chivalry, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Ethics, Evil, Faith, Fashion, Femininity, Feminism, Freedom, Friendship, Guilt and Innocence, History, ID, Identity, Ideology, Institutional Power, Jews, Legal Responsibility, life and death struggle, Love, non-violence, Peace, Philosophy, Political, Political Movements, Power, Psychology, relationships, Roles, Sex Appeal, Social Conventions, Spirituality, Suffering, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Woman, Theism, Time, twentieth century, Violence, War, Zeitgeist | Tagged "Jewish Review of Books", "New York Review of Books", "Sylvia Rafael: The Life and Death of a Mossad Spy", 1972 Munich Games, Achmed Bouchiki, ambivalence, anti-Semites, Ayn Rand, chastity, clean and dirty hands, combat, cruelty, enabling, enemies, espionage, Freudian id, good and evil impulse, hate, heroes, Holocaust, humility, idealism, innocence, integrity, Israel, Israeli Olympic team, Jews, karma, Lillehammer, love, love/hate, lust, Mossad, Moti Kfir, non-resistance, non-violence, normality, Norway, Olympics, pacifism, powerlessness, pride, purity, rabbis, Ram Oren, self-defense, sin, Tolstoy, Wittgenstein | 2 Comments

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