Word: heschel
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...greatest fault of modern education is the failure to develop the sense of wonder and awe which is "the beginning of faith," Abraham J. Heschel, Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary said last night in the final Israel Goldman Memorial Lecture...
...Heschel spoke on "The Intellectual View of Our Religious Convictions," and asserted that "we must respond to the mystery of living with a sense of awe before we can intellectually understand the existence of God." He described faith as the response to the "mystery of existence...
...Heschel asserted that "man is less concerned with God than God is with man," and cited Adam, Cain and Abel, and Noah as Biblical examples. "God in search of man is the great paradox of Biblical literature," he said. "God seeks us out by asking the Ultimate Question of us. Faith in God is an answer to the question. Thus God is not passive to our search...
...first was the late Franz Rosenzweig (TIME, April 5, 1954). The second is Martin Buber (TIME, Jan. 23). The third is Abraham Joshua Heschel. 49, Polish-born, Berlin-educated friend of Theologian Buber and associate professor of Jewish ethics and mysticism at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary. Twinkle-eyed Dr. Heschel, a small man located beneath a bush of grey hair, labors in a blue haze of cigar smoke, and writes prose that sings and soars in the warm, intuitive tradition of the great 18th century Hasidic leaders from whom he is descended. His just-published book...
...Heschel calls his method "depth theology." He is concerned "not so much [with] what the person is able to express as that which he is unable to express, the insights that no language can declare ..." Heschel divides the insights under three main headings - 1) God, 2) Revelation, 3) Response - and breaks them into a series of short med itations packed with spiritual aphorisms and surprises. Samples...