Prayer After the Death of God

A Phenomenological Study of Hebrew Literature

Avi Sagi (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

300 Seiten

2016
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-61811-503-4 (ISBN)

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The widespread view is that prayer is the centre of religious existence and that understanding the meaning of prayer requires that we assume God is its sole destination. This book challenges this assumption and, through a phenomenological analysis of the meaning of prayer in modern Hebrew literature, shows that prayer does not depend at all on the addressee.

The widespread view is that prayer is the center of religious existence and that understanding the meaning of prayer requires that we assume God is its sole destination. This book challenges this assumption and, through a phenomenological analysis of the meaning of prayer in modern Hebrew literature, shows that prayer does not depend at all on the addressee humans are praying beings. Prayer is, above all, the recognition that we are free to transcend the facts of our life and an expression of the hope that we can override the weight of our past and present circumstances.

Avi Sagi is Professor of Philosophy and founder of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University as well as a faculty member at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He has written and edited many books and articles in philosophy and Jewish thought, among them Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd, Jewish Religion after Theology, and Tradition vs. Traditionalism.

Introduction Chapter 1: Prayer and Hebrew Literature

Chapter 2: “The Death of God” and the Possibility of Prayer

Chapter 3: Prayer as a Primary Datum

Chapter 4: Between Self-Reflection and Ontological Event

Chapter 5: Grappling with the Addressee Problem

Chapter 6: Reconstructing the “Death of God” Moment

Chapter 7: Humans as Praying Beings: A Phenomenological Profile Bibliography

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Erscheinungsdatum	11.08.2016
Reihe/Serie	Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
Übersetzer	Batya Stein
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-61811-503-0 / 1618115030
ISBN-13	978-1-61811-503-4 / 9781618115034
Zustand	Neuware