God of Abraham

✍ Scribed by Lenn Evan Goodman

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 385
• Edition: 1ST
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This cogently argued and richly illustrated book rejects the dichotomy between the God of Abraham and the God of the philosophers to argue that the two are one. In God of Abraham, one of our leading philosophers of religion shows how human values can illuminate our idea of God and how the monotheistic idea of God in turn illuminates our moral, social, cultural, aesthetic, and even ritual understanding. Throughout Goodman draws on a wealth of traditional, philosophical, historical, and anthropological materials, and particularly on a wide range of Jewish sources. He demonstrates how an adequate understanding of the interplay of values with monotheism dissolves many of the longstanding problems of natural theology and ethics and guides us toward a genuinely humanistic moral and social philosophy.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 20
1 The Logic of Monotheism......Page 24
2 The Existence of God......Page 58
3 Monotheism and Ethics......Page 100
4 The Doable Good: The Individual and the Community......Page 136
5 Ethical Monism and Ethical Pluralism......Page 162
6 Monotheism and Ritual......Page 188
7 The Biblical Laws of Diet and Sex......Page 236
8 Time, Creation, and the Mirror of Narcissus......Page 257
Abbreviations......Page 298
Bibliography......Page 342
A......Page 346
B......Page 347
C......Page 348
D......Page 350
E......Page 351
G......Page 352
H......Page 353
I......Page 355
K......Page 356
M......Page 357
N......Page 359
P......Page 360
R......Page 362
S......Page 363
T......Page 365
V......Page 366
Z......Page 367
Index of Citations......Page 368