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The Stroke of Lightning

Posted on July 16, 2024 by Abigail

One time I asked the Swiss-French philosopher Jeanne Hersch what she thought the French model for romantic love was. Her response was instant: C’est Tristan. That twelfth-century tale, which exists in many versions, goes like this: Tristan, a Cornish knight, … Continue reading →

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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

“Theism, Philosophy and Me”

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Abigail

“Theism, Philosophy and Me” All weekend, recovering from a cold and feeling more dead than alive, I’ve been giving myself a crash course in philosophical theism. Theism is the belief in a personal God, who cares about you and me, … Continue reading →

Posted in academe, action, alienation, contemplation, contradictions, culture, desire, dialectic, ethics, evil, faith, fashion, guilt and innocence, history, history of ideas, identity, ideology, idolatry, institutional power, life and death struggle, ontology, philosophy, political, power, psychology, reductionism, relationships, roles, social conventions, spirituality, suffering, terror, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, theism, twentieth century, violence, war, Zeitgeist | Tagged Ambassador Morganthau's Story by Henry Morganthau, analytic philosophers, Anglo-American Philosophy, argument, Armenian Golgotha by Grigoris Balakian, Armenian massacres, Atheism, causal chain, Christian theism, Continental philosophy, detective stories, dialogue, Epistemology, existence of God, experience of the Divine, falsifiable, genocide, human evil, naturalism, Perceiving God by William P. Alston, personal God, personal narrative, Phenomenology, Phenomenology of religious experience, physicalism, politics of ideas, prayer, proof, sceptics, scientific theories, sense data, sense perception, sincerity and authenticity, The Epistemology of Religious Experience by Keith E. Yandell, theism, theists v atheists, tough-minded philosophers, Warranted Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga, World War I | 2 Comments

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