The radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan [electronic resource] / Mel Scult.
Material type: TextSeries: The modern Jewish experiencePublication details: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2014] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN:- 9780253010889
- 296.8/344 23
- BM755.K289 S395 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Excommunications: Kaplan and Spinoza -- Self-reliance: Kaplan and Emerson -- Nationalism and righteousness: Ahad ha-Am and Matthew Arnold -- Universalism and pragmatism: Felix Adler, William James, and John Dewey -- Kaplan and peoplehood: Judaism as a civilization and Zionism -- Kaplan and his God: an ambivalent relationship -- Kaplan's theology: beyond supernaturalism -- Salvation: the goal of religion -- Salvation embodied: the vehicle of mitzvot -- Mordecai the pious: Kaplan and Heschel -- The law: halakhah and ethics -- Kaplan and the problem of evil: cutting the gordian knot -- Appendix: "Thirteen wants" of Mordecai Kaplan reconstructed.
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