Overview
Refusing to accept anything but ever-increasing levels of human responsibility within a religious framework, covenantal thinkers audaciously suggest that the covenant empowers humanity as it binds and inhibits divinity. This is a reformulation of recurrent issues within the Jewish tradition, and one which pays homage to the modern context from which it emerges. Hartman and Borowitz grew up in the same mid-century American academic and social environment, and the product of that upbringing has a significant impact on the subsequent theories which they promote. Both thinkers have attracted a considerable following, but very few scholars have discussed them together. Cooper here for the first time works toward understanding their work in comparison with each other, and with covenant as the central focus and framework.
Full Product Details
Author: Simon Cooper
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.333kg
ISBN: 9781936235698
ISBN 10: 1936235692
Pages: 250
Publication Date: 15 December 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Cooper is probably most illuminating in his probing discussion of the historical and cultural context from which Hartman and Borowitz's covenantal thought emerged. . . .Cooper's lucid and accessible analysis of Hartman's covenantal theology shows how Hartman responds to what he considers the most powerful element of the modern critique of religion: the tendency of religion in general and Judaism in particular to promote feelings of resignation and powerlessness.--Dr. Ari Ackerman The Covenantal Thought of David Hartman (02/21/2013)
Cooper (London School of Jewish Studies and Jewish Studies, King's College, London) analyzes issues relating to the nature of the divine-human relationship in the work of two contemporary Jewish theologians. Among his topics are American Jewish theology and society in the post-Holocaust period, the sources and contexts of covenantal thought, the autonomous thrust in Judaism, covenantal ethics and law, and the boundaries of covenantal responsibility. The study is revised from his PhD dissertation at King's College, London.--Annotation (c)2012 Book News Inc. Portland, OR
Author Information
Simon Cooper (PhD King's College, London) is a teaching fellow at the London School of Jewish Studies and teaches at the MA program in Jewish Studies at King's College, London.
