Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s religious antecedents as legitimising a Christian faith expression
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s depth theology model is a theology of the act of believing. It emerges from the Chasidic expression of Judaism founded during the Enlightenment period. A modern approach is to profile God according to circumstances as a prerequisite to believing. The uniqueness o...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Afrikaans |
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2014-04-01
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| Series: | In die Skriflig |
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| Online Access: | http://www.indieskriflig.org.za/index.php/skriflig/article/view/1693 |
| Summary: | Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s depth theology model is a theology of the act of believing. It
emerges from the Chasidic expression of Judaism founded during the Enlightenment period.
A modern approach is to profile God according to circumstances as a prerequisite to believing.
The uniqueness of this Jewish concept of faith is come to in an indirect way. Heschel argues
from antecedents to believing in order to establish faith’s credibility. This is done, not by
emphasising content of belief in the first instance, but on awareness of reality at its fullest
expression. This approach could be seriously considered as establishing grounds towards
credible Christian faith expressing a living testimony. It could also serve as an ecumenical
bridge between Jewish and Christian religions in their sharing of commonalities of the basics
of what constitutes legitimate faith. |
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| ISSN: | 1018-6441 2305-0853 |