To Heal a Fractured World

The Ethics of Responsibility

Sir Jonathan Sacks (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Continuum (Verlag)
978-1-3994-2090-7 (ISBN)

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Rabbi Sacks argues that preoccupation with self is a mistake and that ethics are concerned with the life we live together. With a new foreword by Rowan Williams.

Rabbi Sacks argues that preoccupation with self is a mistake and that ethics are concerned with the life we live together, talking with as much authority about Sigmund Freud or Karl Marx as he does about the Bible. With a new foreword by Rowan Williams.

‘The only force equal to a fundamentalism of hate is a counter-fundamentalism of love.’

Jonathan Sacks was an outstanding moral authority of our time and bestselling author of The Dignity of Difference. One of Judaism’s most distinctive and challenging ideas is its ethics of responsibility. We have been given the gift of freedom and we in turn have to honour and enhance the freedom of others. More than in any previous generation, we have been tempted to imagine that it is the individual’s needs which are the sole source of meaning.

This is a clarion call to the outside world to come to its senses.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks was Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Britain and the Commonwealth. He was the author of numerous books, including Celebrating Life, From Optimism to Hope, The Persistence of Faith and The Dignity of Difference, for which he won a Grawemeyer Award in Religion.

Acknowledgements
Foreword

Part 1: The Call to Responsibility
1 The Ethics of Responsibility
2 Faith as Protest
3 Charity as Justice
4 Love as Deed
5 Sanctifying the Name
6 Mending the World
7 Like a Single Soul
8 The Kindness of Strangers
9 Responsibility for Society

Part 2: The Theology of Responsibility
10 The Birth of Responsibility
11 Divine Initiative, Human Initiative
12 The Holy and the Good
13 The Monotheistic Imagination
14 The Faith of God
15 Redeeming Evil

Part 3: The Responsible Life
16 Transforming Suffering
17 The Chaos Theory of Virtue
18 The Kind of Person We Are
19 Who Am I?
20 On Dreams and Responsibilities

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.05.2025
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	128 x 196 mm
Gewicht	207 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-10	1-3994-2090-9 / 1399420909
ISBN-13	978-1-3994-2090-7 / 9781399420907
Zustand	Neuware