God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology
Rabbi Bradley Shavit DHL Artson
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God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology
Rabbi Bradley Shavit DHL Artson
amazon.comThe Rabbis’ fundamental theological breakthrough was a “secularization” insight. God was becoming less visible, more hidden. The Destruction was a signal that manifest divine activity was being curtailed. God would not stop the Romans or save the Temple (even though God had destroyed the Egyptians at the Red Sea). Still the covenant was not being d
... See moreRabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s observation that “Judaism is based upon a minimum of revelation and a maximum of interpretation.”
Covenantal living is intergenerational living—it is to know oneself as the descendant of ancestors and the ancestor of descendants, all sharing a dream of a world in which human dignity is real and the presence of God is manifest (more on this dream in chapter 12).
The Torah has a very strong sense of what is, and an equally strong sense of what ought to be, and it recognizes very clearly that if the second ever gets too far away from the first, the Torah will become a repository of irrelevant and impossible ideals.