Knowing God Jewish Journeys to the Unknowable

Contemporary Jews often find meaning in Judaism's family and communal orientation, its beautiful rituals, its enriching culture, its sense of ethnic rootedness, and its moral values. For the classical Jewish tradition, however, all of these features of Ju

Preface
Acknowledgment
A Personal Quest	p. 1
Seeking an Honest, Integrated Faith
The Traditional Stance
The Modern Reality of Jewish Belief
My Own Growth into Religious Belief
Epistemological Moorings
God in Contemplation versus God in Action and Prayer
Using Reason to Know God	p. 17
Knowing God as One Knows an Object
Discerning Patterns in Experience: Knowledge through Nonhypothetical Discovery
Appropriate Methods to Know a Personal God
Knowing God through Human Action	p. 43
Methodology: How Action Affords Theological Knowledge
Content: Two Examples of What We Learn of God through Action - Duties to Parents and Observance of the Sabbath
The Role of Law in Effectuating Principles
The Truth Value and Wisdom of These Theological Claims
Knowing God through Words of the Divine: Revelation	p. 91
Understanding Revelation
Experiencing Revelation
Knowing God through Divine Action	p. 129
The Related Problem of Evil
Fusing Conceptions of God
Differentiating the Two Definitions of God
God's Justice and Goodness
Truth at the Price of Consistency and Fantasy
Knowing God through Human Words: Prayer	p. 149
Experiencing God through Prayer
The Philosophical Problems and Promise of Prayer
Our Images of God	p. 209
Anthropomorphism as a Form of Idolatry
Images, Creeds, and Symbols
The Functions of Images in Worship
How Images Mean
The Truth of Images
The Authority of Images
A Sample Case: Feminine Images for God
Good and Bad Images
Epilogue	p. 249
Endnotes	p. 253
Index	p. 289
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