4. On the Meaning and Significance of Revelation for Orthodox Judaism

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Editors’ Foreword 1
4. Modern Orthodoxy and the Road Not Taken: A Retrospective View 7
5. Part One. Law and Theology
6. 1. History and Halakhah 55
7. 2. Rabbi Yitz Greenberg’s Covenantal Theory of Bioethics 67
8. 3. Irving Greenberg’s Theology of Hybrid Judaism 81
9. 4. On the Meaning and Significance of Revelation for Orthodox Judaism 96
10. 5. Divine Hiddenness and Human Input: The Potential Contribution of a Postmodern View of Revelation to Yitz Greenberg’s Holocaust Theology 107
11. 6. Modern Orthodoxy and Religious Truth 129
12. 7. On Revelation, Heresy, and Mesorah—from Louis Jacobs to the TheTorah.com 146
13. Part Two. Past and Present
14. 8. What Is “Modern” in Modern Orthodoxy? 172
15. 9. Can Modern Orthodoxy Survive? 193
16. 10. Where Have All the Rabbis Gone? The Changing Character of the Orthodox Rabbinate and its Causes 211
17. 11. Modern Orthodox Responses to the Liberalization of Sexual Mores 224
18. 12. “The Road Not Taken” and “The One Less Traveled”: The Greenberg–Lichtenstein Exchange and Contemporary Orthodoxy 254
19. Editors and Contributors 289
20. Index 293