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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-a5782446059741828ba3f1824b2cd8322022-12-22T00:21:00ZafrAOSISIn die Skriflig1018-64412305-08532014-04-0148118Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s religious antecedents as legitimising a Christian faith expressionRaymond Potgieter0Faculty of Theology, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South AfricaRabbi 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.http://www.indieskriflig.org.za/index.php/skriflig/article/view/1693antecedentsdepth theologyChasidicfaith |
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| title | Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s religious antecedents as legitimising a Christian faith expression |
| title_full | Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s religious antecedents as legitimising a Christian faith expression |
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| title_sort | rabbi abraham joshua heschel s religious antecedents as legitimising a christian faith expression |
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