Abraham Joshua Heschel : the call of transcendence /
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) was a prolific scholar, impassioned theologian, and prominent activist who participated in the Black civil rights movement and the campaign against the Vietnam War. He has been hailed as a hero, honored as a visionary, and endlessly quoted as a devotional writer. I...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2013]
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| Summary: | Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) was a prolific scholar, impassioned theologian, and prominent activist who participated in the Black civil rights movement and the campaign against the Vietnam War. He has been hailed as a hero, honored as a visionary, and endlessly quoted as a devotional writer. In this sympathetic, yet critical, examination, the author elicits the overarching themes and unity of Heschel's incisive and insightful thought. Focusing on the idea of transcendence - or the movement from self-centeredness to God-centeredness - the author puts Heschel into dialogue with contemporary Jewish thinkers, Christian theologians, devotional writers, and philosophers of religion. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 333 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-326) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780253011305 0253011302 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |