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...editing could be better. There are moments, for example, in Daniel Leifer's otherwise absorbing critique of Aaron David Gordon, when one chokes on dusty, academic prose. Prose aside, I think this piece is the best of the lot. Leifer rightly ranks Gordon with Buber and Rosenzweig as the most influential of this century's unorthodox European Jews, and he insists persuasively that Gordon is not so much the famed ideologue of Zionism's "religion of labor," as a theologian who fused strains of European romanticism into a new definition of Judaism. Certainly Gordon had a romantic sense...
...Egypt, who struggles with the Hound of Heaven for Yasha's soul. But there is little mystical murkiness in Singer's writing: it has a clean and sun-washed optimism, a sense of human uncertainty in the face of divine certainty, which Jewish Philosopher Martin Buber has described as "holy insecurity...
...been a woman theologian of note) tend to equate the restless self-concern that results from this state with sin, and to extol the opposite (feminine) qualities of quiet, self-surrendering passivity. Such theologians as Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr, Sweden's Anders Nygren and Israel's Martin Buber see man as estranged from himself and from God and filled with anxiety because of his estrangement; that anxiety, in their view, results in sins of "pride, will-to-power, exploitation, self-assertiveness, and the treatment of others as objects rather than persons ... It is clear that such an analysis...
...Tillich," he said to me. "Tillich. That's the stuff you want to read. Sophisticated. Twentieth-century. The cutting edge of knowledge. All the insights of White-head, Freud, Jung, Buber, Langer, Kierkegaard, Satre, et cetera. And more," he said looking me straight...
...Anti-Vivisection Society, which he lampoons. Does he know of the reflections on this subject by Albert Schweitzer in Reverence for Life or by Carl von Weizsacker (who gave a course on Scientific Method at Harvard in Summer, 1952), in The World View of Physics or by Martin Buber in I and Thou? Is he prepared to reject all philosophical slantings from Hinduism on the dangers of the development of power by the exploitation of lower by higher intelligences or in the regarding of living beings as "things...