Journal ArticleNeue Zeitschrift Fur Systematische Theologie Und Religionsphilosophie · November 1, 2025
The present study examines the conceptual relationship between the Jewish neo-Kantian philosopher Hermann Cohen and the Ritschlian school, the dominant school of Protestant theology of his time. Its point of departure is that much can be illuminated in Coh ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Jewish Studies · March 1, 2025
Were Jewish Orthodox leaders involved in the Second Vatican Council (1962-66)? Common knowledge has it that they refused to cooperate with the Church during its deliberations on the drafting of the 'Document on the Jews' - the document that eventually evol ...
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Journal ArticleHarvard Theological Review · July 1, 2024
In the subsection “Grammar of Eros (The Language of Love)” in section 2 of book 2 of The Star of Redemption, the beating heart of the work, Franz Rosenzweig offers a peculiar portrait of the event of revelation.What is presented is a dramatization of the e ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2024
Anyone who reads Jonas’ two major works on Gnostic literature, the early German Gnosis und spätantiker Geist and its later English adaptation, The Gnostic Religion, will no doubt recognize the glaring differences between them. Indeed, the English version i ...
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Book · January 1, 2024
This book offers new perspectives on the early and formative years of the German-Jewish philosopher Hans Jonas, through innovative studies of his German and Hebrew work in pre-war Germany and Palestine. Covering all facets of Jonas’s early work, the book b ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy · January 1, 2024
This essay surveys a number of prominent, recurring, and new directions in the growing scholarly discourse on the theme “Heidegger and Judaism” arranged under three headings. The first, the contrastive framing, encompasses cases in which the relationship b ...
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Journal ArticleHistory of European Ideas · January 1, 2024
This study argues that the bond between ‘secularization’ and ‘de-legitimation’ is not only borne out in debates over grand historical narratives relating to the status of modernity, as argued by Hans Blumenberg, but in debates over the appraisal of specifi ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Religion · January 1, 2024
This essay explores the fraught relationship between Martin Buber and Christian thought by critically analyzing and historically contextualizing his Two Types of Faith (1950). In this work Buber applies the distinction he puts forth between faith as relati ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the American Academy of Religion · September 1, 2023
This study contributes to contemporary discussions about the entanglement, cross-fertilization, and co-implicatedness of religion and empire by adding a voice from the still underexamined field of Jewish thought. It claims that the European imperial projec ...
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Journal ArticleModern Intellectual History · June 1, 2022
This article argues that the link Hans Jonas drew between Martin Heidegger’s philosophy and Gnosticism cannot be properly understood without taking into consideration his philosophical interpretation of modern science. It claims that Jonas saw Heideggerian ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Theological Studies · October 1, 2021
This essay exposes and discusses Karl Barth's previously unknown involvement in the Second Vatican Council debates over the document on the Jews, which would soon be commonly known as Chapter IV of Nostra Aetate, and argues for its importance for our under ...
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Journal ArticleReligions · June 1, 2021
This article argues that Karl Löwith’s thesis of secularization—in brief, that while modern philosophical notions present themselves as secular, they are in fact secularized, that is, they preserve features of the theological background they repress and re ...
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Book · October 8, 2020
In this book, Daniel Herskowitz examines the rich, intense, and persistent Jewish engagement with one of the most important and controversial modern philosophers, Martin Heidegger. Contextualizing this encounter within wider intellectual, cultural, and pol ...
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Journal ArticleLeo Baeck Institute Yearbook · January 1, 2020
This article deals with some unexplored Jewish resp.onses to the volkish elements in Martin Heidegger's philosophy. Heidegger's idiosyncratic and deeply philosophical account of volkism stood at the heart of his political support of National Socialism and ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy · January 1, 2020
In his writings, Rabbi Isaac Hutner integrated various insights from secular philosophy and particularly from existentialist thought. Concerns regarding temporality, authenticity, and death permeate his thought. This article deals with what we call "being- ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion · October 1, 2019
As part of a religiously-oriented analysis, Martin Buber associates Martin Heidegger’s later philosophy with magic. The present article is dedicated to explicating and evaluating this association. It does so, first, by fleshing out how Buber comes to depic ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy · January 1, 2018
In his writings, Rabbi Isaac Hutner integrated various insights from secular philosophy and particularly from existentialist thought. Concerns regarding temporality, authenticity, and death permeate his thought. This article deals with what we call "being- ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy · January 1, 2018
Martin Heidegger's philosophy has elicited many theological responses; some enthusiastic, others critical. In this essay I provide an organized and critical analysis of Abraham Joshua Heschel's theological critique of and rejoinder to the thought of the Ge ...
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Journal ArticleModern Theology · July 1, 2017
In this essay I examine the Jewish reception of Karl Barth's theology in Germany of the 1930s. This I do through an analysis of a disputed exploration into the possibilities and limitations of the theological principles of dialectical theology for the form ...
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Journal ArticleAjs Review · April 1, 2016
This article addresses the philosophical sources of Soloveitchik's unique account of time and repentance as presented particularly in the second part of Halakhic Man. In the past, thinkers such as Max Scheler, Hermann Cohen, and Henri Bergson have been sug ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Modern Jewish Studies · September 2, 2015
In this article I trace and examine volkish elements in Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's thought. My claim is that Soloveitchik is influenced by different notions of volkish ideology which are applied to the Jewish volk. These notions enrich his thought and ...
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