Life as creation : a Jewish way of thinking about the world /
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| Language: | English |
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Northvale, N.J. :
Jason Aronson,
c1993
Northvale, N.J. ; London : [1993], ©1993 |
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Table of Contents:
- 19. Creation and the State of Israel. 20. Jewish Creation and Human Redemption
- III. God and Creation. 21. God's Justice and the World-to-Come. 22. The Need for God. 23. God's Providence. 24. Creation and Obedience to God. 25. Consciousness and Creation. 26. The Mind of God. 27. The Mind of God: A Comparison of Divine and Human Methods of Creation. 28. Creating Greater Goodness. 29. God and the Mysteries of Creation. 30. Creation and the Day of Rest
- IV. Creation and the Everyday Moral Life. 31. Life as Sacred Text that Must be Read Over and Over. 32. Creation as Making One's Own Life in Freedom. 33. To Create Our Own Destiny. 34. Creation and Everyday Life. 35. Choosing Good and Sanctifying Everyday Life. 36. Creation and Family Life. 37. Creation and Everyday Work Life. 38. Creation Gives Meaning to Life. 39. The Working of the Creative Process in Everyday Life. 40. The Individual's Re-creation of His Own Moral Character in Everyday Life
- V. Creation and the Life of the Mind
- 41. Interpreting, Understanding, and Re-creating Reality. 42. History as a Struggle for Control of the Consciousness of Mankind. 43. Knowing Everything and Creating a True Picture of the World. 44. The Place of Contradiction in Any Understanding We Have of Ultimate Reality. 45. Making a True Picture of the World through Re-creation of Various "Times" 46. Re-creating the Lives of Others. 47. To Know Oneself. 48. The Creation of an Ideal Self. 49. A Kind of Ideal Creator: The In-Between Man. 50. Creation and the Hidden Powers of the Self
- VI. Literary Creation. 51. Creation in Life and/or Literature. 52. The Writer's Immortalization of Those He Loves through Literature. 53. Creation and the Striving of the Creator for His Own Immortalization. 54. Love and Creation. 55. Frustrations of Creation. 56. Rejection and the Fortunate Failure. 57. Loneliness, Suffering, and Creation. 58. Striving for Greatness in Creation. 59. Creation and Literary Greatness. 60. The Ideal Literary Creation: Tanach
- I. Mankind in Creation. 1. An Essential Quality of Mankind Is the Capacity for Creation. 2. Making Goodness Predominant in Creation. 3. Creation and Chosenness. 4. The Chosenness of Peoples in Creation: Secondary Chosenness. 5. Chosenness in Creation and Human Remembrance. 6. Moral and Cultural Creation and Historical Redemption. 7. Creation as Ongoing Process of Mankind as a Whole. 8. Ultimate Limitations in Human Creative Powers. 9. Further Limitations in the Creation of Mankind: The Creature in the Middle. 10. Creation and the Overall Development of Mankind
- II. Jewish Creation. 11. The Jews and Religious Creation. 12. The Jews' Re-creation of Themselves in History. 13. The Jewish Conception of the Relation between Generations. 14. Jewish People as People of Creation. 15. Certain Characteristics of Jewish Creation and Creators. 16. Jewish Creation: Interaction with and Learning from Other Peoples. 17. Jewish Creation and Hatred of the Jews. 18. Jewish Creation and the Ongoing Struggle for Survival