Jewish Theology and Process Thought

Sandra B. Lubarsky, David Ray Griffin

SUNY Press, Mar 7, 1996 - Religion - 316 pages

This collection constitutes the first extended discussion of the relationship between Judaism and process thought. In the last half century the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne have become important sources for contemporary theological reflection. Recently, a number of Jewish thinkers have examined process thought as a potentially valuable resource for postmodern Jewish theology. This book brings together many Jewish thinkers who have pioneered this discussion.

Contents

• The Prophetic Faith in a Secular Age: 25
• A Process Theory of Torah and Mitzvot: 35
• Judaism and Process Thought Between Naturalism and Supematuralism: 47
• Judaism and Process Theology Parallel Concerns and Challenging Tensions: 59
• The Essence of Judaism A ProcessRelational Critique: 75
• Would an AllPowerful God Be Worthy of Worship?: 89
• Process Theodicy Christology and the Imitatio Dei: 95
• Theodicy in Jewish Philosophy and David Griffins Process Theology: 127
• The Concept of God after Auschwitz A Jewish Voice: 143
• Hans Jonas as Process Theologian: 159
• Reversing the Reversal Covenant and Election in Jewish and Process Thought: 163
• In the Presence of Mystery Process Theology and Interfaith Relations: 185
• Rabbinic Text Process Theology: 195
• The Organic Relation Between Natural and Text Process Theologies: 233
• Biblical Hermeneutics and Process Thought: 241
• Living Torah A Response to William Beardslee: 247
• Hylotheism A Theology of Pure Process: 255
• Modern and Postmodern Liberal Theology A Response to Alvin Reines: 289
• Notes on Contributors: 309
• Index: 313

About the author

Sandra B. Lubarsky is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies at Northern Arizona University. She is the author of Tolerance and Transformation: Jewish Approaches to Religious Pluralism.

David Ray Griffin is Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology at the School of Theology at Claremont and Claremont Graduate School. In addition to editing the SUNY Press series in Constructive Postmodern Thought, he has published several books with SUNY Press, having authored God and Religion in the Postmodern World: Essays in Postmodern Theology and Evil Revisited: Responses and Reconsiderations, coauthored Primordial Truth and Postmodern Theology; Varieties of Postmodern Theology; and Founders of Constructive Postmodern Philosophy: Peirce, James, Bergson, Whitehead, and Hartshorne; edited The Reenchantment of Science: Postmodern Proposals; Spirituality and Society: Postmodern Visions; Sacred Interconnections: Postmodern Spirituality, Political Economy, and Art; and Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time: Bohm, Prigogine, and Process Philosophy; and coedited Theology and the University: Essays in Honor of John B. Cobb, Jr.; and Postmodern Politics for a Planet in Crisis: Policy, Process, and Presidential Vision.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Jewish Theology and Process Thought; SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought
• Editors: Sandra B. Lubarsky, David Ray Griffin
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: SUNY Press, 1996
• ISBN: 0791428109, 9780791428108
• Length: 316 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / General; Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic; Religion / Judaism / General; Religion / Judaism / Theology