Addresses some of the most burning questions but also provides surveys of contemporary Jewish religious life in the various communities and of the attitudes of Jewish thinkers to other religious faiths. For the first time a comprehensive account of Halakhic attitudes towards Christianity is presented. The differences in Jewish mystical thought and that of Christianity and other faiths are studied, along with the Jewish view of the relationship of faith to tradition compared with that of other religions.
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CONTRIBUTORS: Louis Jacobs
EAN: 9780853035671
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 440 g
HEIGHT: 235 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd
DATE PUBLISHED: 2005-05-30
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GENRE: RELIGION / Judaism / Theology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
WIDTH: 159 cm
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Rabbi Louis Jacobs, CBE, was Rabbi of the New London Synagogue for more than thirty years and was Visiting Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Lancaster University. His books include We Have Reason to Believe (1957, fifth revised edition 2004), Jewish Values (1960), Principles of the Jewish Faith (1964), A Jewish Theology (1973), God, Torah, Israel (1990) and Jewish Preaching: Homilies and Sermons (2004). His autobiography, Helping with Inquiries (1989), describes the controversy that erupted after the first appearance of We Have Reason to Believe, and the subsequent establishment of the New London Synagogue.
