Judaism and ecology: created world and revealed wordHava Tirosh-Samuelson Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, 2002 - Nature - 515 pages Jewish ecological discourse has shown that Judaism harbors deep concern for the well-being of the natural world. However, the movement has not articulated a Jewish theology of nature, nor has it submitted the sources of Judaism to a systematic, philosophical examination. This volume intends to contribute to the nascent discourse on Judaism and ecology by clarifying diverse conceptions of nature in Jewish thought and by using the insights of Judaism to formulate a constructive Jewish theology of nature. The twenty-one contributors consider the Bible and rabbinic literature, examine the relationship between the doctrine of creation and the doctrine of revelation in the context of natural law, and wrestle with questions of nature and morality. They look at nature in the Jewish mystical tradition, and they face the challenges to Jewish environmental activism caused by the tension between the secular nature of the environmental discourse and Jewish religious commitments. |
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Contents
Preface | xi |
Introduction Judaism and the Natural World | xxxiii |
The Doctrine of Creation | xxxv |
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| Title | Judaism and ecology: created world and revealed word Volume 8 of Religions of the world and ecology |
| Editor | Hava Tirosh-Samuelson |
| Publisher | Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, 2002 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | Oct 27, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0945454368, 9780945454366 |
| Length | 515 pages |
| Subjects | › › Ecology Environmentalism Human ecology Human ecology - Religious aspects - Judaism Human ecology/ Religious aspects/ Judaism Judaism Nature Nature - Religious aspects - Judaism Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection Nature/ Religious aspects/ Judaism Religion / Judaism / General Religion / Judaism / Theology Science / Life Sciences / Ecology |
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