The Triumph of Life

Auteur

Rabbi Irving Greenberg is a preeminent Jewish thinker, theologian, activist, president of the J.J. Greenberg Institute for the Advancement of Jewish Life, and senior scholar in residence at Hadar. He is the author of five books, including For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter between Judaism and Christianity (JPS, 2004).

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The Triumph of Life is Rabbi Irving Greenberg's magnum opus--a narrative of the relationship between God and humanity expressed in the Jewish journey through modernity, the Holocaust, the creation of Israel, and the birth of Judaism's next era.

Résumé
The Triumph of Life is Rabbi Irving Greenberg's magnum opusa narrative of the relationship between God and humanity expressed in the Jewish journey through modernity, the Holocaust, the creation of Israel, and the birth of Judaism's next era.

Contenu

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. A Vision of Life in a Redeemed World

1. Creation and the Dignity of Life
2. Human Beings in the Image of God
3. Tikkun Olam and the Triumph of Life
4. The Biblical Struggle of Life against Death
5. The Commandments and the Supremacy of Life
   Part 2. Covenant as Method of World Repair
6. The Covenantal Method of Repairing the World
7. Relationship and Choice in the Covenant
8. Humanity in the Covenantal Partnership
9. Covenantal Time
   Part 3. The Covenant in the Third Era
10. Modernity
11. The Holocaust
12. Responses after the Holocaust
13. The State of Israel
14. Judaism in the Third Era
    Table. The Three Great Eras of Jewish History
    Notes
    Index