A Plausible God : Secular Reflections on Liberal Jewish Theology / Mitchell Silver.
Silver, Mitchell, author.
2009
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Title A Plausible God : Secular Reflections on Liberal Jewish Theology / Mitchell Silver.
Author Silver, Mitchell, author.
ISBN 9780823238514
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823238514
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2009
Language English
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Description 1 online resource (200 p.)
Item Number 10.1515/9780823238514 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 296.311
Summary At least since the seventeenth century, the traditional God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam has been under pressure to conform to the scientific worldview. Across the monotheistic traditions there has emerged a "liberal" conception of God compatible with a thoroughgoing naturalism. For many, this liberal "new" God is the only credible God. But is it a useful God? Does belief in so malleable a deity come from, or lead to, different political, moral, psychological, or aesthetic phenomena from atheism?A Plausible God evaluates the new God by analyzing the theology of three recent Jewish thinkers -Mordechai Kaplan, Michael Lerner, and Arthur Green-and compares faith in the new God to disbelief in any gods. Mitchell Silver reveals what is at stake in the choice between naturalistic liberal theology and a nontheistic naturalism without gods. Silver poses the question: "If it is to be either the new God or no God, what does-what should-determine the choice?"Although Jewish thinkers are used as the primary exemplars of new God theology, Silver explores developments in contemporary Christian thought, Eastern religious traditions, and "New Age" religion. A Plausible God constitutes a significant contribution to current discussions of the relationship between science and religion, as well as to discussions regarding the meaning of the idea of God itself in modern life.
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE
PART 1
1. THE NEW GOD'S RELEVANCE
2. A FIRST PASSAT DEFINING ''GOD'': THE ALLAND THE ONE
3. A SECOND PASS: GOD AS THE POTENTIAL FOR GOODNESS
4. THE USES OF BELIEF IN GOD
5. THE USEFULNESS OF A PLAUSIBLE GOD
6. SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME
7. TALKING TO AND ABOUT GOD
PART 2
8. AVOIDING IDOLATRY
9. A MATTER OF TASTE
10. TRUTH AND BEAUTY
APPENDIX A. THE INEFFABLE
APPENDIX B. THE UNTENABLE GOD
APPENDIX C. THEORIES OF TRUTH AND CREDIBILITY
NOTES
REFERENCES
Index

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