Suchergebnisse

Foreword / Nancy Isserman -- Introduction / Alan Mittleman -- Is America Christian? : religion in America at the turn of the twentieth century / Yaakov Ariel -- Evangelical Protestants and Jews : a view from the polls / John C. Green -- How wide is the social distance between Jews and Evangelicals? / Barry Kosmin -- The organized Jewish community and Evangelical America : a brief history / Lawrence Grossman -- "Luckier than Moses :" the future of the Jewish-Evangelical alliance / George W. Mamo -- On the road : the Jewish community relations encounter with Evangelical Christians / Ethan Felson -- Evangelical ironies : theology, politics, and Israel / Gary Dorrien -- Evangelicals and Israel / Gerald R. McDermott --Jews and Evangelicals : between prophecy and Mitzvot / Yehiel Poupko -- American Jews and Evangelical Christians : anatomy of a changing relationship / Carl Schrag -- Last things : the future of Jews and Evangelicals in American public life / Mark Silk -- Notes for a Jewish-Evangelical conversation / David Neff -- What makes Evangelical and Jewish relations uneasy? / Byron Johnson

Abstract
The concept of Jewish ethics is elusive. Law occupies a prominent place in the phenomenology of traditional Judaism. What room is left for ethics? This paper argues that the dichotomy between law and ethics, with regard to Judaism, is misleading. The fixity of these categories presumes too much, both about normativity per se and about Judaism. Rather than naming categories "law" and "ethics" should be seen as contrastive terms that play a role in fundamental arguments about how to characterize Judaism.

"Leo Strauss, in an autobiographical aside, spoke of being in the grip of a "theological political predicament" as a young man. He meant by this something like the following. For modern Jews the constellation of religious beliefs that seems to them reasonable and compelling—the theological horizon, so to speak—is constrained by the political horizon. They are spiritually indebted, to the point of dependency, on the values of the political system, which, for the lucky ones at least, derive from the Enlightenment. Judaism therefore depends on the Enlightenment. But what happens when confidence in the Enlightenment begins to wobble and Judaism, now weakened by its dependency, lacks the strength to make up the difference?"(.)