Contemporary Covenantal Thought: Interpretations of Covenant in the Thought of David Hartman and Eugene Borowitz

by Simon Cooper

Refusing to accept anything but ever-increasing levels of human responsibility within a religious framework, covenantal thinkers audaciously suggest that the covenant empowers humanity as it binds and inhibits divinity. This is a reformulation of recurrent issues within the Jewish tradition, and one which pays homage to the modern context from which it emerges. Hartman and Borowitz grew up in the same mid-century American academic and social environment,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936235692
• ISBN13: 9781936235698
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"