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Judaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology provides the first
broad encounter between modern Jewish thought and recent
developments in political theology. In opposition to impetuous
associations of Judaism and liberalism and charges that Judaism
cannot engender a universal political order, the essays in this
volume propose a new and richly detailed engagement between Judaism
and the political. The vexed status of liberalism in Jewish thought
and Judaism in political theology is interrogated with recourse to
thinking from across the Continental tradition.
Nature and Norm: Judaism, Christianity and the Theopolitical
Problem is a book about the encounter between Jewish and Christian
thought and the fact-value divide that invites the unsettling
recognition of the dramatic acosmism that shadows and undermines a
considerable number of modern and contemporary Jewish and Christian
thought systems. By exposing the forced option presented to Jewish
and Christian thinkers by the continued appropriation of the
fact-value divide, Nature and Norm motivates Jewish and Christian
thinkers to perform an immanent critique of the failure of their
thought systems to advance rational theopolitical claims and
exercise the authority and freedom to assert their claims as
reasonable hypotheses that hold the potential for enacting
effective change in our current historical moment.
Freedom and Law offers a provocative new view of the relationship
between human desire, the production of knowledge, and conceptions
of power by developing a nonpolemical account of divine law. Where
recent trends in political theology have insisted upon the
antagonistic nature of the law, this book presents the
paradigm-altering power of a discourse in the nexus between law and
freedom. It demonstrates how this nexus catapults religious thought
into a free and powerful engagement with nonreligious political,
ethical, and social positions. Freedom and Law challenges a
contemporary wave of scholarship, including the work of Jacob
Taubes, Giorgio Agamben, and Slavoj Zizek, that identifies Jewish
law as the originary soucre of polemic between nations and
therefore as historically responsible for the exceptionalism that
undergirds contemporary conflict. By contrast, Freedom and Law
argues that only in an account of revelatory law can divine freedom
and human freedom be thought of without contradiction. The first
part analyzes the logic of exceptionalism. In the second part, the
author argues that one cannot invoke a doctrine of election without
rigorous scrutiny of texts that portray an electing God and an
elected people. Once we scrutinize these texts, the character of
freedom and law within the divine-human relationship shows itself
to be different from that found in exceptionalist logics. The third
and final part examines the impact of the logic of the law on
Jewish-Christian apologetics. Rather than require that one defend
one's position to a nonbeliever, this logic situates all
epistemological justification within the order or freedom of God.
If the condition of the possibility of my claim is the reality of
divine freedom, such freedom also justifies the possibility of
another's claim. In a significant contribution to the
post-ecclesiastical reengagement between religion, critical theory,
and the political, Freedom and Law introduces new categories of
knowledge and action into Jewish and Christian thinking, unbound by
the dialectics of desire that has dominated the discourse of both
traditions for centuries. It shows how thinking of law and freedom
together may now enable Judaism and Christianity to engage in a
historically self-conscious and nonrelativistic relation to each
other and to nonbelievers.
Judaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology provides the first
broad encounter between modern Jewish thought and recent
developments in political theology. In opposition to impetuous
associations of Judaism and liberalism and charges that Judaism
cannot engender a universal political order, the essays in this
volume propose a new and richly detailed engagement between Judaism
and the political. The vexed status of liberalism in Jewish thought
and Judaism in political theology is interrogated with recourse to
thinking from across the Continental tradition.
When we think about the intersection of religion and politics, few
people think of liturgy. Yet it is the contention of many
theologians that our liturgical texts and rituals have important
implications for our public life together. The latest volume in the
Radical Traditions series, Liturgy, Time, and the Politics of
Redemption advances a timely conversation about the place of
religious reasoning in public discourse by attending to the way the
scriptures are liturgically performed in Jewish and Christian
communities. It includes diverse examinations of liturgy, from
Peter Ochs's contention that reciting Jewish Morning Prayer can
reorient our view of the world to Oliver Davies's illumination of
the silence of the cross through two Russian words for silence. Of
interest to theologians, philosophers, and clergy, Liturgy, Time,
and the Politics of Redemption brings Jewish and Christian thinkers
into conversation, showing parallels in these traditions'
liturgical reasoning and opening new possibilities for
Jewish-Christian relations.
Revelation and Theopolitics: Barth, Rosenzweig and the Politics of
Praise overcomes false dichotomies between reason and faith spawned
by modernity's emphasis on rationalism, arguing that such errors
are overcome by a 'theology of testimony' exemplified in the
thought of Karl Barth and Franz Rosenzweig. Rejecting the
neo-Kantian emphasis on moral self-reliance, Barth and Rosenzweig
present what Rashkover terms a 'theology of testimony' to the God
who loves through the event of divine election. Moreover,
determined by their scriptural theologies of testimony, Barth and
Rosenzweig present a parallel re-interpretation of the Word of God
that re-enlivens the meaningful and non-dogmatic character of
Jewish and Christian religious life and strengthens them to provide
a voice of cultural criticism and faithful witness in the context
of the challenges posed by contemporary society. Finally, Rashkover
demonstrates how Rosenzweig and Barth's theologies of testimony
reorient the character of Jewish and Christian political
engagement. Liturgical praise to the loving God who elects
translates into political action that works both to preserve
justice and to critique expressions of human self-interest. This
shared politics of praise helps Jews and Christians rethink the
relationship between the Church and Israel. Breaking fresh ground
through mutually critical conversations, Revelation and
Theopolitics rigorously renews political theology in a postmodern
age.
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