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Can There Be a Jewish Pantheism?

Can There Be a Jewish Pantheism? CAN THERE BE A JEWISH PANTHEISM? A REVIEW ESSAY by Michael Levine Michael P. Levine is currently senior lecturer in philosophy at The University of Western Australia. He has published numerous articles in the areas of philosophy of religion, metaphysics, history of philosophy, philosophy of history and ethics. He is the author of Hume and the Problem of Miracles (Kluwer, 1989) and Pantheism: A Non-Theistic Concept of Deity (forthcoming). Seek My Face, Speak My Name: A Contemporary Jewish Theology, by Arthur Green. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1992. 266 pp. What you are reading is a heterodox mystical theology of Judaism. I do not see a divine intent or will in the life force .... This is not "will" in our highly personalistic human sense, but a striving inherent in the very existence and evolution of the universe. . . . The voice of God does speak to us at Sinai, but it is none other than the voice of Moses. The hands and feet of God do bring redemption, but they are none other than our own limbs.... . . . Jewish panentheism, the world [is] included or "located" within the divine. Nothing other than that is intended http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Purdue University Press

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CAN THERE BE A JEWISH PANTHEISM? A REVIEW ESSAY by Michael Levine Michael P. Levine is currently senior lecturer in philosophy at The University of Western Australia. He has published numerous articles in the areas of philosophy of religion, metaphysics, history of philosophy, philosophy of history and ethics. He is the author of Hume and the Problem of Miracles (Kluwer, 1989) and Pantheism: A Non-Theistic Concept of Deity (forthcoming). Seek My Face, Speak My Name: A Contemporary Jewish Theology, by Arthur Green. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1992. 266 pp. What you are reading is a heterodox mystical theology of Judaism. I do not see a divine intent or will in the life force .... This is not "will" in our highly personalistic human sense, but a striving inherent in the very existence and evolution of the universe. . . . The voice of God does speak to us at Sinai, but it is none other than the voice of Moses. The hands and feet of God do bring redemption, but they are none other than our own limbs.... . . . Jewish panentheism, the world [is] included or "located" within the divine. Nothing other than that is intended

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish StudiesPurdue University Press

Published: Oct 3, 1993

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