God's Kindness Has Overwhelmed Us: a Contemporary Doctrine of the Jews as the Chosen People

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Abstract

Jerome Gellman presents a new theology of the Jews as the Chosen People, addressing self-serving ethnocentric supremacy, cultural isolation, and defamation of religions other than Judaism. This book is traditional in taking chosenness and the truth of Judaism seriously, and in eschewing a theology of multiple covenants. At the same time, it is critical, rejecting previous concepts of chosenness, and innovative, offering for the twenty-first century a fresh way of seeing the Jews’ place in the world. On this foundation, Gellman suggests a new approach to inter-religious understanding from a Jewish point of view, and examines the impact of his proposal on traditional Jewish liturgy.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherAcademic Studies Press
Number of pages120
ISBN (Electronic) 9781618111920
ISBN (Print)9781618111708
StatePublished - Dec 2012

Publication series

NameEmunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah

Keywords

  • Auserwähltes Volk
  • Judaism
  • RELIGION / Judaism / Theology
  • Judentum

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