Judaism and the Gentile Faiths: Comparative Studies in Religion

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1981 - Religion - 411 pages
Examines the historic development of Jewish religions thought in the cross-cultural context of the world's major faiths. The law, ethics, and mysticism of Judaism are compared with their counterparts in Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, and the secular formulations of religion in modern times.
 

Contents

The Way In the Confucian and Rabbinic Traditions
35
THE JEWISH DIASPORA IN CHINA
36
THE NATURE OF GOD AND THE ROLE OF HEAVEN
38
PREDESTINATION
39
THE IMPULSE TO MAGIC
40
GOD AND SOCIETY
42
LI AND TORAH
43
RABBINIC AND CONFUCIAN ETHICS
46
PROPHETIC AND APOCALYPTIC VIEWS OF THE MILLENNIUM
207
CHARACTERISTICS OF JEWISH MILLENARISM
210
THE IMAGE OF THE MESSIAH IN CHRISTIANITY
212
CHARACTERISTICS OF CHRISTIAN MILLENARISM
213
MILLENARISM AND THE CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENT
214
MILLENARISM AND THE JEWISH RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENT
217
EVOLUTIONARY MILLERNARISM THE LURIANIC KABBALAH AND JONATHAN EDWARDS
221
REVOLUTIONARY MILLENARISM SABBATIANISM AND CHRISTIAN SECTARIANISM
225

THE CONFUCIAN DOCTRINE OF RECIPROCITY
47
DIVINE RETRIBUTION IN CONFUCIANISM
49
THE RABBINIC DOCTRINE OF RECIPROCITY
51
DIVINE RETRIBUTION IN JUDAISM
54
NO CONFUCIAN BOOK OF JOB
56
RABBINIC AND CONFUCIAN PEDAGOGY
58
DISCIPLESHIP IN CONFUCIANISM
59
CONFUCIANISM FOR THE MASSES
60
THE RABBINIC CURRICULUM
61
RABBINIC DISCIPLESHIP
62
THE RABBIS AND THE FOLK
63
STUDY AND LABOR
64
NOTES
66
The Concept of Illusion in Vedanta and Kabbalah
70
THE MYSTIC WAY
72
CONTRASTING DEVELOPMENT OF JUDAISM AND HINDUISM
74
THE HUMANDIVINE ENCOUNTER IN THE UPANISHADS
75
GOD AND MAN IN THE GITA
76
THE VEDANTA SCHOOL OF SANKARA
77
SANKARA AND MAIMONIDES
80
THE VEDANTA SCHOOL OF RAMANUJA
81
RAMANUJA AND HALEVI
84
EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO SANKARA AND RAMANUJA
85
YOGA ACCORDING TO THE G1TA
86
RAMANUJA
87
THE LURIANIC DOCTRINE OF TZIMTZUM
89
TZIMTZUM AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
90
TZIMTZUM ACCORDING TO HABAD HASIDISM
91
THE HABAD AND VEDANTA CONCEPT OF ILLUSION
92
THE DIVINE IN MANCONTRASTING VIEWS
95
MEDITATION IN THE GITA AND ACCORDING TO HABAD
96
NOTES
97
Death and Rebirth in the Buddhist and Jewish Traditions
101
THE BIBLICAL VIEW OF DEATH AND AFTERLIFE
103
THE RABBINIC VIEW OF DEATH AND AFTERLIFE
104
KARMA AND REINCARNATION IN HINDU THOUGHT
107
KARMA AND REINCARNATION IN BUDDHISM
109
BUDDHIST HEAVENS AND HELLS
111
KARMA RECIPROCITY AND MERIT IN BUDDHISM AND JUDAISM
112
THE EIGHTFOLD PATH
116
THE WAY OF THE UPRIGHT
119
BUDDHIST AND JEWISH MEDITATION
122
BUDDHIST AND JEWISH PARALLELS
123
REINCARNATION IN JEWISH MYSTICISM
129
THE JEWISH DEBATE OVER GILGUL
134
MEANING IN SUFFERING
136
NOTES
137
Religion and Politics in Classical Judaism and Islam
142
THE COMMON ORIGINS OF JUDAISM AND ISLAM
143
THE BACKGROUND OF PRIMITIVE DEMOCRACY
144
PRIMITIVE DEMOCRACY IN ANCIENT ISRAEL
146
PRIMITIVE DEMOCRACY IN PREISLAMIC ARABIA AND IN EARLY ISLAM
148
KINGSHIP IN ISRAELTHE FIRST COMMONWEALTH
149
KINGSHIP IN ISRAELTHE SECOND COMMONWEALTH
153
THE PHARISAIC AND SADDUCEAN VIEWS OF GOVERNMENT
157
THE NEXUS BETWEEN POLITICS AND RELIGION IN THE VIEWS OF THE PHARISEES AND SADDUCEES
161
RABBINIC VIEWS OF THE POLITICAL OFFICE
162
THE CALIPHATE IN ISLAM
163
THE NEXUS BETWEEN POLITICS AND RELIGION IN THE VIEWS OF THE SECRETARIES AND ULEMA
166
ISLAMIC VIEWS OF POLITICAL OFFICE
167
IMPACT ON THE SHARIA OF THE ULEMA IN GOVERNMENT
168
REVOLT AGAINST AUTHORITY IN JUDAISM
169
REVOLT AGAINST AUTHORITY IN ISLAM
172
THE HOLY WAR IN JUDAISM
177
THE JIHAD IN ISLAM
186
JEWISH PHILOSOPHERS VIEW THE STATE
190
MUSLIM PHILOSOPHERS VIEW THE STATE
190
NOTES
192
Judaism and Christianity
203
Roads to the Millennium
205
SHABBETAI ZEVI AND SABBATIANISM
226
THE JEWISH REACTION TO SHABBETAI ZEVI
228
CHRISTIAN INFLUENCE ON SABBATIANISM
230
RADICAL CHRISTIAN SECTARIANISM
232
THE ANABAPTIST UPRISING
233
RELIGIOUS AND SECULARIST MILLENARISM
236
NOTES
239
Religious Revival and Inner A wakening
245
GERMAN PIETISM
246
ENGLISH METHODISM
250
AMERICAN REVIVALISM THE GREAT AWAKENING
255
RUSSIAN SECTARIANISM
259
JEWISH HASIDISM
263
INTERCULTURAL INFLUENCES
273
NOTES
275
Puritans and Mitnagdim
279
THE GAONS CONTRIBUTION TO JEWISH LEARNING
280
HILUKIM
285
THE PURITAN VIEW OF INTELLECT AND EMOTION
287
REASON AND EMOTION IN THE GAONS LIFE
288
THE PURITAN ETHIC
290
JEWISH ECHOES OF THE PURITAN ETHIC
291
THE GAONS VIEWS OF MONEY AND SEX
292
THE THESIS OF MAX WEBER
294
THE PURITAN VIEW OF POLITICS AND SOCIETY
296
POLITICS AND SOCIETY FROM THE VANTAGE OF THE MITNAGDIM
297
NOTES
300
The Religious Psychology of Jonathan Edwards and the Hasidic Masters of Habad
303
INTELLECT VERSUS EMOTION
304
JONATHAN EDWARDS AND SCHNEOR ZALMAN
305
THE TWIN POLES OF THE MIND
306
MIND AND BODY
308
THE SAINT AND THE AVERAGE MAN
310
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE AVERAGE MAN
312
EDWARDSS VIEW OF AUTHENTIC AND INAUTHENTIC RELIGION
313
THE HABAD VIEW OF AUTHENTIC AND INAUTHENTIC RELIGION
314
RETICENCE ON THE HUMANDIVINE ENCOUNTER
318
NOTES
321
Judaism and the Secular Challenge
325
Rabbinic Ethics and Situation Ethics
327
LAW AND LOVE IN SITUATION ETHICS
329
THE LIMITS OF PRAGMATISM
332
MORALS OF THE LAST DAYS
335
ORGAN TRANSPLANTS AND DIALYSIS MACHINES
336
A SITUATIONIST RESPONSUM
337
THE NATURE OF CONSCIENCE
339
THE RELATION OF MEANS AND ENDS
343
EUTHANASIA AND ANTIDYSTHANASIA
344
TRIAGE AND THE ENERGYFOOD CRISIS
345
THE SECULAR CHALLENGE
346
The Noahite Commandments The Religious Basis for World Law
350
NATURAL LAW IN GREEK PHILOSOPHY
351
THE ROMAN COMPONENT OF NATURAL LAW
352
BIBLICAL ADUMBRATIONS OF THE NOAHITE LAWS
354
THE COMMANDMENTS OF NOAH IN PHILO AND THE APOCRYPHA
355
THE NOAHITE LAWS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
356
THE NOAHITE LAWS AND THE CONVERT TO JUDAISM
357
RABBINIC AMBIVALENCE TOWARD THE NOAHITE
358
NOAHITES MUST BELIEVE IN REVELATION
360
THE ROAD OF REASON FOR THE GENTILES
362
THE DEBATE BETWEEN GROTIUS AND SELDEN
363
NOTES
365
A Final Word
367
REVELATION
368
REDEMPTION
369
NOTES
371
Bibliography
372
Index
395
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