Word: polydox
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...polydox, "even Reform Judaism seems right wing...
...Reform seminary, Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College. Yet he considers Reform Judaism to be only a halfhearted effort at liberalism. The answer, he insists, is "polydoxy," a radically open-ended faith with only one absolute: that there are no absolutes. At the first national meeting of polydox Jews in St. Louis last week, Reines proposed the creation of a Polydox Jewish Confederation to unite the radicals...
Consistent with polydox belief, there was no mention at the St. Louis meeting of God (or, as Reines' writings would have it, "god"). Because many Jews no longer believe in a personal, benevolent deity who revealed himself to Moses, polydox liturgies use vague formulations, such as "the power of creation" or "the flow and force of life." In fact, the polydox hold "services," not "worship services," since they have no particular god to worship...