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  • Human Nature & Jewish Thought

    Judaism's Case for Why Persons Matter

    by Alan L. Mittleman ...
    Series series Library of Jewish Ideas
    "This concise and accessible exploration of personhood and its moral and spiritual implications will appeal to religious and secular thinkers." — Publishers WeeklyThis book explores one of the great questions of our time: How can we preserve our sense of what it means to be a person while at the same time accepting what science tells us to be true—namely, that human nature is continuous with the ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hope in a Democratic Age

    Philosophy, Religion, and Political Theory

    by Alan Mittleman ...
    How and why should hope play a key role in a twenty-first century democratic politics? Alan Mittleman offers a philosophical exploration of the theme, contending that a modern construction of hope as an emotion is deficient. He revives the medieval understanding of hope as a virtue, reconstructing this in a contemporary philosophical idiom. In this framework, hope is less a spontaneous reaction ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Absurdity and Meaning in Contemporary Philosophy and Jewish Thought

    by Alan L. Mittleman ...
    There is a lively discussion in contemporary philosophy that explores the meaning of life or, more modestly, meaning in life. Philosophers, for the most part, assume that religion has little to contribute to this inquiry. They believe that the Western religions, such as Judaism, have doctrinaire beliefs which have become implausible and can no longer satisfy the search for meaning. In this book, ... Read more

    $106.99 CAD

  • Does Judaism Condone Violence?

    Holiness and Ethics in the Jewish Tradition

    by Alan L. Mittleman ...
    A philosophical case against religious violenceWe live in an age beset by religiously inspired violence. Terms such as “holy war” are the stock-in-trade of the evening news. But what is the relationship between holiness and violence? Can acts such as murder ever truly be described as holy? In Does Judaism Condone Violence?, Alan Mittleman offers a searching philosophical investigation of such ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • A Short History of Jewish Ethics

    Conduct and Character in the Context of Covenant

    by Alan L. Mittleman ...
    A Short History of Jewish Ethics traces the development of Jewish moral concepts and ethical reflection from its Biblical roots to the present day.Offers an engaging and thoughtful account of Jewish ethicsBrings together and discusses a broad range of historical sources covering two millennia of writings and conversationsCombines current scholarship with original insightsWritten by a major ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Arts of Leading

    Perspectives from the Humanities and the Liberal Arts

    by Joy Connolly, Edith Hall, Noah Lopez, Alan Mittleman, Tahera Qutbuddin, Marla Frederick, John Miles, Kristin Bezio, Paul Escott, Thavolia Glymph, David Lubin, Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw, Pegram Harrison, Melissa Jones Briggs, Corey Walker ...
    A deeply insightful approach to cultivating leaders of character centered on the arts and humanitiesWhat does it mean to lead? Whom do we consider to be leaders? And how might viewing leadership through the many lenses of the humanities expand our understanding of how it is imagined, represented, and enacted?Drawing on insights from eminent scholars in the classics, philosophy, religion, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Holiness in Jewish Thought

    Edited by Alan L. Mittleman ...
    Holiness is a challenge for contemporary Jewish thought. The concept of holiness is crucial to religious discourse in general and to Jewish discourse in particular. "Holiness" seems to express an important feature of religious thought and of religious ways of life. Yet the concept is ill defined. This collection explores what concepts of holiness were operative in different periods of Jewish ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • Jewish Virtue Ethics

    Edited by Geoffrey D. Claussen, Alexander Green, Alan L. Mittleman ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Thought
    Explores the diversity of Jewish approaches to character and virtue, from the Bible to the present day.What is good character? What are the traits of a good person? How should virtues be cultivated? How should vices be avoided? The history of Jewish literature is filled with reflection on questions of character and virtue such as these, reflecting a wide range of contexts and influences. Beginning ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

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    by Carl F. H. Henry ...
    A monumental six-volume set that presents an undeniable case for the revealed authority of God to a generation that has forgotten who he is and what he has done. ... Read more

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  • Can You Believe It's True?

    Christian Apologetics in a Modern and Postmodern Era

    by John S. Feinberg ...
    Truth?Can we know it? Many people today would say no–we can’t. This paradigmatic shift to relativism presents a direct challenge to the Christian’s witness and the challenge must be answered.In this timely new resource, noted scholar John Feinberg argues that truth is both real and knowable, offering us a robust guide to Christian apologetics for engagement with our world today. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Between Religion and Reason (Part II)

    The Position against Contradiction between Reason and Revelation in Contemporary Jewish Thought from Eliezer Goldman to Jonathan Sacks

    by Ephraim Chamiel ...
    Series Book 2 - Studies in Orthodox Judaism
    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 ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Love of God

    Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism

    by Jon D. Levenson ...
    Series series Library of Jewish Ideas
    "[An] original point of view. . . . A way of finding new meaning in . . . talking about God. It succeeds brilliantly on all counts." ― Jewish Book CouncilThe love of God is the most essential element in Judaism—but also the most confounding. In biblical and rabbinic literature, the obligation to love God appears as a formal commandment. Yet most people today think of love as a feeling. How can an ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus