Theology
A cosmic puzzle best left unsolved.
The author of our October essay joins us to talk about the sources of Jewish resilience, and to share his memories of the Six-Day War.
Jews are a people that has long battled for ideas. Can any sense of purpose be forged in the absence of theology, or a lifelong engagement with the texts of the Jewish canon?
Kabbalah, the “ancient Hebrews,” and Europe’s most famous Jewish heretic.
A new book examines John Rawls’s theology.
Deriving Jewish thought from Scripture.
Anti-Pelagianism, plus Marx’s anti-Semitism, minus religion, equals A Theory of Justice.
He understood that an education that excluded God was not satisfactory.
For thousands of years both friends and enemies of Judaism have labeled it a religion of deed rather than creed, of law rather than faith. A new book firmly and fervently disagrees.
In This Hour.
Does God command genocide in the book of Joshua?
The noted author swings by to talk about the perils and the promises of human mortality.
An impressive but flawed new book tries to do so.
God prays that His own mercy will triumph.