Jewish Messianic Thoughts in an Age of Despair
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1107017920
ISBN-13
9781107017924
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 6th, 2012
Print length
232 Pages
Weight
384 grams
Dimensions
22.00 x 13.30 x 2.10 cms
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JudaismJudaism: theologyJudaismJudaism
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This book asks whether hope for a better future is defensible in light of the horrors of the twentieth century and what we know about the human propensity for evil. It argues that such a belief is defensible and offers a vision of what a redeemed world would be like.
Belief in the coming of a Messiah poses a genuine dilemma. From a Jewish perspective, the historical record is overwhelmingly against it. If, despite all the tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people, no legitimate Messiah has come forward, has the belief not been shown to be groundless? Yet for all the problems associated with messianism, the historical record also shows it is an idea with enormous staying power. The prayer book mentions it on page after page. The great Jewish philosophers all wrote about it. Secular thinkers in the twentieth century returned to it and reformulated it. And victims of the Holocaust invoked it in the last few minutes of their life. This book examines the staying power of messianism and formulates it in a way that retains its redemptive force without succumbing to mythology.
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