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This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and
gifted scholars whose philosophies assimilated the Jewish and
secular cultures of their respective homelands: they include
halakhists from Rabbi Ettlinger to Rabbi Eliezer Berkowitz; Jewish
philosophers from Isaac Bernays to Yeshayau Leibowitz; and biblical
commentators such as Samuel David Luzzatto and Rabbi Umberto
Cassuto.Running like a thread through their philosophies is the
attempt to reconcile the Jewish belief in revelation with Western
culture, Western philosophy, and the conclusions of scientific
research. Among these attempts is Luzzatto's "dual truth" approach.
The Dual Truth is the sequel to the Ephraim Chamiel's previous book
The Middle Way, which focused on the challenges faced by members of
the "Middle Trend" in nineteenth-century Jewish thought.
This book is dedicated to an analysis of the writings of modern
religious Jewish thinkers who adopted a neo-fundamentalist,
illusionary, apologetic approach, opposing the notion that there
may sometimes be a contradiction between reason and revelation. The
book deals with the thought of Eliezer Goldman, Norman Lamm, David
Hartman, Aharon Lichtenstein, Jonathan Sacks, and Michael Abraham.
According to these thinkers, it is possible to resolve all of the
difficulties that arise from the encounter between religion and
science, between reason and revelation, between the morality of
halakhah and Western morality, between academic scholarship and
tradition, and between scientific discoveries and statements found
in the Torah. This position runs counter to the stance of other
Jewish thinkers who espouse a different, more daring approach.
According to the latter view, irresolvable contradictions between
reason and faith sometimes face the modern Jewish believer, who
must reconcile himself to these two conflicting truths and learn to
live with them. This dialectic position was discussed in Between
Religion and Reason, Part I (Academic Studies Press, 2020). The
present volume, Part II, completes the discussion of this topic.
This book concludes a trilogy of works by the author dealing with
modern Jewish thought that attempts to integrate tradition and
modernity. The first in the series was The Middle Way (Academic
Studies Press, 2014), followed by The Dual Truth (Academic Studies
Press, 2018).
This book in two volumes is devoted to examining the first
encounter between traditional Judaism and modern European culture,
and the first thinkers who sought to combine the Torah with
science, revelation with reason, prophecy with philosophy, Jewish
ethics with European culture, worldliness with sanctity, and
universalism with the particular redemption of the Jews. These
religious thinkers of the nineteenth century struggled with
challenges of the modern age that continue to confront the modern
Jews to this day. This objective work of scholarship, neither
simplistic and isolationist nor destructive and arrogant, will be
of interest to the modern thinker and to scholars of the history of
religions. It is relevant to comparative study between Judaism and
the various denominations of Christianity and other faiths that
seek to find a middle way between their traditions and modernity.
The present book is a sequel to Ephraim Chamiel's two previous
works The Middle Way and The Dual Truth-studies dedicated to the
"middle" trend in modern Jewish thought, that is, those positions
that sought to combine tradition and modernity, and offered a
variety of approaches for contending with the tension between
science and revelation and between reason and religion. The present
book explores contemporary Jewish thinkers who have adopted one of
these integrated approaches-namely the dialectical approach. Some
of these thinkers maintain that the aforementioned tension-the rift
within human consciousness between intellect and emotion, mind and
heart-can be mended. Others, however, think that the dialectic
between the two poles of this tension is inherently irresolvable, a
view reminiscent of the medieval "dual truth" approach. Some
thinkers are unclear on this point, and those who study them debate
whether or not they successfully resolved the tension and offered a
means of reconciliation. The author also offers his views on these
debates.This book explores the dialectical approaches of Rav Kook,
Rav Soloveitchik, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Samuel Hugo
Bergman, Leo Strauss, Ernst Simon, Emil Fackenheim, Rabbi Mordechai
Breuer, his uncle Isaac Breuer, Tamar Ross, Rabbi Shagar, Moshe
Meir, Micah Goodman and Elchanan Shilo. It also discusses the
interpretations of these thinkers offered by scholars such as
Michael Rosenak, Avinoam Rosenak, Eliezer Schweid, Aviezer
Ravitzky, Avi Sagi, Binyamin Ish-Shalom, Ehud Luz, Dov Schwartz,
Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, Lawrence Kaplan, and Haim Rechnitzer. The
author questions some of these approaches and offers ideas of his
own. This study concludes that many scholars bore witness to the
dialectical tension between reason and revelation; only some
believed that a solution was possible. That being said, and despite
the paradoxical nature of the dual truth approach (which maintains
that two contradictory truths exist and we must live with both of
them in this world until a utopian future or the advent of the
Messiah), increasing numbers of thinkers today are accepting it. In
doing so, they are eschewing delusional and apologetic views such
as the identicality and compartmental approaches that maintain that
tensions and contradictions are unacceptable.
This book in two volumes is devoted to examining the first
encounter between traditional Judaism and modern European culture,
and the first thinkers who sought to combine the Torah with
science, revelation with reason, prophecy with philosophy, Jewish
ethics with European culture, worldliness with sanctity, and
universalism with the particular redemption of the Jews. These
religious thinkers of the nineteenth century struggled with
challenges of the modern age that continue to confront the modern
Jews to this day. This objective work of scholarship, neither
simplistic and isolationist nor destructive and arrogant, will be
of interest to the modern thinker and to scholars of the history of
religions. It is relevant to comparative study between Judaism and
the various denominations of Christianity and other faiths that
seek to find a middle way between their traditions and modernity.
This book in two volumes is devoted to examining the first
encounter between traditional Judaism and modern European culture,
and the first thinkers who sought to combine the Torah with
science, revelation with reason, prophecy with philosophy, Jewish
ethics with European culture, worldliness with sanctity, and
universalism with the particular redemption of the Jews. These
religious thinkers of the nineteenth century struggled with
challenges of the modern age that continue to confront the modern
Jews to this day. This objective work of scholarship, neither
simplistic and isolationist nor destructive and arrogant, will be
of interest to the modern thinker and to scholars of the history of
religions. It is relevant to comparative study between Judaism and
the various denominations of Christianity and other faiths that
seek to find a middle way between their traditions and modernity.
This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and
gifted scholars whose philosophies assimilated the Jewish and
secular cultures of their respective homelands: they include
halakhists from Rabbi Ettlinger to Rabbi Eliezer Berkowitz; Jewish
philosophers from Isaac Bernays to Yeshayau Leibowitz; and biblical
commentators such as Samuel David Luzzatto and Rabbi Umberto
Cassuto.Running like a thread through their philosophies is the
attempt to reconcile the Jewish belief in revelation with Western
culture, Western philosophy, and the conclusions of scientific
research. Among these attempts is Luzzatto's "dual truth" approach.
The Dual Truth is the sequel to the Ephraim Chamiel's previous book
The Middle Way, which focused on the challenges faced by members of
the "Middle Trend" in nineteenth-century Jewish thought.
This book in two volumes is devoted to examining the first
encounter between traditional Judaism and modern European culture,
and the first thinkers who sought to combine the Torah with
science, revelation with reason, prophecy with philosophy, Jewish
ethics with European culture, worldliness with sanctity, and
universalism with the particular redemption of the Jews. These
religious thinkers of the nineteenth century struggled with
challenges of the modern age that continue to confront the modern
Jews to this day. This objective work of scholarship, neither
simplistic and isolationist nor destructive and arrogant, will be
of interest to the modern thinker and to scholars of the history of
religions. It is relevant to comparative study between Judaism and
the various denominations of Christianity and other faiths that
seek to find a middle way between their traditions and modernity.
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