Faith Finding Meaning: A Theology of Judaism

by Byron L. Sherwin

Book Overview

Over four decades ago, the pre-eminent Jewish theologian, Abraham Joshua Heschel, warned of a "second Holocaust" - a spiritual genocide against Judaism that American Jews were perpetrating on themselves. By engaging in assimilation and secularization, he argued, Jews were losing their religious identity and, through it, their identity as a people. In Faith Finding Meaning, Byron L. Sherwin makes the case for a return to Jewish theology as a foundation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195336232
• ISBN13: 9780195336238
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.2"