God of Abraham

by Goodman, Lenn Evan

• ISBN13: 9780195083125
• ISBN10: 0195083121
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-03-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This cogently argued and richly illustrated book rejects the dichotomy between the God of Abraham and the God of the philosophers to argue that the two are one. In God of Abraham , one of our leading philosophers of religion shows how human values can illuminate our idea of God and how the monotheistic idea of God in turn illuminates our moral, social, cultural, aesthetic, and even ritual understanding. Throughout Goodman draws on a wealth of traditional, philosophical, historical, and anthropological materials, and particularly on a wide range of Jewish sources. He demonstrates how an adequate understanding of the interplay of values with monotheism dissolves many of the longstanding problems of natural theology and ethics and guides us toward a genuinely humanistic moral and social philosophy.

Author Biography

Lenn Goodman is Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
The Logic of Monotheism	p. 3
The Existence of God	p. 37
Monotheism and Ethics	p. 79
The Doable Good' the Individual and the Community	p. 115
Ethical Monism and Ethical Pluralism	p. 141
Monotheism and Ritual	p. 167
The Biblical Laws of Diet and Sex	p. 215
Time, Creation, and the Mirror of Narcissus	p. 236
Notes	p. 277
Bibliography	p. 321
General Index	p. 325
Index of Citations	p. 347
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