By Gustav Niebuhr — 1996
Rabbi Kushner argues that God does not will personal tragedy, but takes the side of those afflicted and suffers with them.
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Paul Mendes-Flohr offers the first major biography in English in thirty years of this seminal modern Jewish thinker, Martin Buber.
First published in 1952, Eclipse of God is a collection of nine essays concerning the relationship between religion and philosophy. The book features Buber’s critique of the thematically interconnected—yet diverse—perspectives of Soren Kierkegaard, Hermann Cohen, C.G.
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