wyszukanych pozycji: 16
Religion as a Public Good: Jews and Other Americans on Religion in the Public Square
ISBN: 9780742531253 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Religion as a Public Good: Jews and Other Americans on Religion in the Public Square explores the often controversial topic of how religion ought to relate to American public life. The sixteen distinguished contributors, both Jewish and Christian, reflect on the topic out of their own disciplines--social ethics, political theory, philosophy, law, history, theology, and sociology. and take a stand based on their religious convictions and political beliefs. The volume is at once scholarly and committed, polemic and civil, reflective and activist. Written in the shadow of 9/11, it invites a new...
Religion as a Public Good: Jews and Other Americans on Religion in the Public Square explores the often controversial topic of how religion ought to r...
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281,67 zł |
Uneasy Allies?: Evangelical and Jewish Relations
ISBN: 9780739119655 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Uneasy Allies? offers a careful study of the cultural distance between Jews and Evangelicals, two groups that have been largely estranged from one another. While in the past, American Jews have been wary of accepting the support of would-be Evangelical Christian allies, changes have occurred due to the critical situation in the Middle East. Over the past few years, leaders in mainstream Jewish organizations have been more open to accepting Evangelical support but have also encountered new tensions. Alan Mittleman, Byron R. Johnson, and Nancy Isserman bring together a collection of critical...
Uneasy Allies? offers a careful study of the cultural distance between Jews and Evangelicals, two groups that have been largely estranged from one ano...
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602,01 zł |
A Short History of Jewish Ethics: Conduct and Character in the Context of Covenant
ISBN: 9781405189422 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. A Short History of Jewish Ethics traces the development of Jewish moral concepts and ethical reflection from its Biblical roots to the present day.
A Short History of Jewish Ethics traces the development of Jewish moral concepts and ethical reflection from its Biblical roots to the p...
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397,38 zł |
Jews and the American Public Square: Debating Religion and Republic
ISBN: 9780742521247 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Jews and the American Public Square is a study of how Jews have grappled with the presence of religion, both their own and others, in American public life. It surveys historical Jewish approaches to church-state relations and analyzes Jewish responses to the religion clauses of the First Amendment. The book also explores how the contemporary sociological and political characteristics of American Jews bear on their understanding of the public dimensions of American religion. In addition to a descriptive and analytic approach. the volume is also critical and polemical. Its contributors attack...
Jews and the American Public Square is a study of how Jews have grappled with the presence of religion, both their own and others, in American public ...
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281,67 zł |
Jewish Polity and American Civil Society: Communal Agencies and Religious Movements in the American Public Square
ISBN: 9780742521223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Jewish Polity and American Civil Society is a study of the civic and political engagements of American Jews as mediated by their communal and denominational institutions. The book explores how the various branches of the organized Jewish community seek to influence public affairs. Over the course of the last century, Jewish agencies and religious movements have tried to shape public debate and public policy on such issues as civil rights, church-state relations, and American foreign policy. The book sets the history of Jewish engagement in these areas into historical context; analyzes the...
Jewish Polity and American Civil Society is a study of the civic and political engagements of American Jews as mediated by their communal and denomina...
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281,67 zł |
Human Nature & Jewish Thought: Judaism's Case for Why Persons Matter
ISBN: 9780691176277 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This 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 rest of nature? What, in other words, does it mean to be a person in a world of things? Alan Mittleman shows how the Jewish tradition provides rich ways of understanding human nature and personhood that preserve human dignity and distinction in a world of neuroscience, evolutionary biology, biotechnology, and pervasive scientism. These ancient resources... This 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 ac... |
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99,36 zł |
Religion as a Public Good: Jews and Other Americans on Religion in the Public Square
ISBN: 9780742531246 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Religion as a Public Good: Jews and Other Americans on Religion in the Public Square explores the often controversial topic of how religion ought to relate to American public life. The sixteen distinguished contributors, both Jewish and Christian, reflect on the topic out of their own disciplines--social ethics, political theory, philosophy, law, history, theology, and sociology. and take a stand based on their religious convictions and political beliefs. The volume is at once scholarly and committed, polemic and civil, reflective and activist. Written in the shadow of 9/11, it invites a new...
Religion as a Public Good: Jews and Other Americans on Religion in the Public Square explores the often controversial topic of how religion ought to r...
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679,33 zł |
The Scepter Shall Not Depart from Judah: Perspectives on the Persistence of the Political in Judaism
ISBN: 9780739100974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The title of political theorist Alan L. Mittleman's captivating new book is drawn from the patriarch Jacob's blessing to his children and grandchildren. The blessing contains the promise that Judah will become a royal house, perhaps forever. Kings, of course, ceased in Israel, but politics did not. Regime replaced regime. National independence was compromised and lost, regained and lost again. Yet the attention to things political was never lost. Old texts were applied to new political realities. Political awareness and thought, constantly transformed and adapted to new historical exigencies,...
The title of political theorist Alan L. Mittleman's captivating new book is drawn from the patriarch Jacob's blessing to his children and grandchildre...
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220,92 zł |
Does Judaism Condone Violence?: Holiness and Ethics in the Jewish Tradition
ISBN: 9780691174235 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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193,31 zł |
Hope in a Democratic Age: Philosophy, Religion, and Political Theory
ISBN: 9780199297153 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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 than it is a choice against despair; a decision to live with confidence and expectation, based on a rational assessment of possibility and a faith in the underlying goodness of life. In cultures shaped...
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,...
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239,87 zł |
Human Nature & Jewish Thought: Judaism's Case for Why Persons Matter
ISBN: 9780691149479 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This 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 rest of nature? What, in other words, does it mean to be a person in a world of things? Alan Mittleman shows how the Jewish tradition provides rich ways of understanding human nature and personhood that preserve human dignity and distinction in a world of neuroscience, evolutionary biology, biotechnology, and pervasive scientism. These ancient resources... This 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 ac... |
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193,31 zł |
Holiness in Jewish Thought
ISBN: 9780198796497 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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 history and bodies of Jewish literature and offers preliminary reflections on their theological and philosophical import today. The contributors illumine some of the major episodes concerning holiness in...
Holiness is a challenge for contemporary Jewish thought. The concept of holiness is crucial to religious discourse in general and to Jewish discourse ...
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553,08 zł |
Uneasy Allies? : Evangelical and Jewish Relations
ISBN: 9780739119662 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Uneasy Allies? offers a careful study of the cultural distance between Jews and Evangelicals, two groups that have been largely estranged from one another. While in the past, American Jews have been wary of accepting the support of would-be Evangelical Christian allies, changes have occurred due to the critical situation in the Middle East. Over the past few years, leaders in mainstream Jewish organizations have been more open to accepting Evangelical support but have also encountered new tensions. Alan Mittleman, Byron R. Johnson, and Nancy Isserman bring together a collection of critical...
Uneasy Allies? offers a careful study of the cultural distance between Jews and Evangelicals, two groups that have been largely estranged from one ano...
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248,54 zł |
Jewish Virtue Ethics
ISBN: 9781438493909 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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161,05 zł |
Jewish Virtue Ethics
ISBN: 9781438493916 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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399,15 zł |
Absurdity and Meaning in Contemporary Philosophy and Jewish Thought
ISBN: 9781009098267 / Twarda / 2023 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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428,81 zł |