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Spiritual Integrity - On the Possibility of Steadfast Honesty in Faith and Worship (Paperback)
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Spiritual Integrity - On the Possibility of Steadfast Honesty in Faith and Worship (Paperback)
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In Spiritual Integrity, Martin S. Cohen argues that it is possible
for a serious commitment to religion-including to ritual, dogma,
and prayer-to co-exist with a parallel commitment to the absolute
integrity of the intellect. Writing as a working rabbi with almost
four decades of experience in the pulpit, but also bringing to bear
a lifetime of scholarly research into the history of Judaism, Cohen
uses his own faith as the framework for his proposals and shows
convincingly that although the concept of faith is regularly
invoked precisely to justify avoiding honesty in religion, there
also exists the possibility of using the traditional language of
religious commitment to live wholly honestly in the world as a
person of faith. Cohen uses all sorts of examples drawn from
Judaism to make his point, but his book is not about Judaism, per
se, however, but rather is a call to arms for people of all
faiths-or no specific faith-to recognize that religion that, if
embraced openly and honestly, can also lead to the embrace of a
serious kind of spirituality anchored in frankness, honesty, and
the renunciation of gullibility. Teaching would-be persons of faith
how to move forward from a starting-gate fashioned of those
specific values as pilgrims seeking redemption honestly and
honorably-and fully imbued with what the author calls spiritual
integrity-that should be the task of the world's spiritual leaders.
Could it actually be possible to be a person of deep, abiding faith
without feeling a concomitant need to profess belief in principles
that there simply is no specific way to prove-and which could
therefore just as easily be false as true? Cohen argues that it is
more than possible to aspire to that level of honesty in religion
and Spiritual Integrity is his attempt to prove that specific
point!
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