Post-Modern Jewish God-Talk

God-talk has not come easily to Jews in recent generations, for now-familiar reasons: the age-old Jewish suspicion of claims to personal religious experience or direct divine authority; the modern suspicion that people who continue to believe in traditional religious notions have not fully come to t...

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Published in:Tikkun 2016-08, Vol.31 (3), p.72-72
Main Author: Eisen, Arnold M.
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description God-talk has not come easily to Jews in recent generations, for now-familiar reasons: the age-old Jewish suspicion of claims to personal religious experience or direct divine authority; the modern suspicion that people who continue to believe in traditional religious notions have not fully come to terms with the legacy of Marx, Darwin, Freud, and Einstein, et al; Jewish reluctance to stand too much apart from the larger (and secular) elite culture of America; the formidable obstacle of the Holocaust, barring the way to confidence or willingness to accept that a supreme being of any sort is involved in the world's history; and, not least, the ability of even observant Jews (or perhaps particularly of observant Jews) to get by without thinking much about God, the central seam in the tallit that is their tradition.
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