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Category Archives: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Meditations on Future Hope
Let’s consider two ways of looking at the meaning of time and events: naturalism and messianism. There are certainly other ideas about history, the present, and the future, but for simplicity’s sake, I’m only interested in these two. By naturalism … Continue reading
Sabbath Wisdom #1
”All week long we are called upon to sanctify life by employing things of space. On the Sabbath it is given to share the holiness that is in the heart of time.” -Abraham Joshua Heschel
Posted in Abraham Joshua Heschel, Sabbath
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Life of Loving Deeds #2
As part of my belief that the life and message of Yeshua is relevant for people today, and that he came to make disciples to join in kingdom work, I am blogging each week on loving deeds. In “Life of … Continue reading
Posted in Abraham Joshua Heschel, Discipleship, ethics, Love, Loving Deeds, Prophets, Scot McKnight
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Teaching Faith to Youth
I’ve been doing a short series on Sabbath afternoons with the youth of our congregation talking about faith. I didn’t have any when I was a teenager and was not raised in any sort of religious environment. So I find, … Continue reading
Posted in Abraham Joshua Heschel, Atheism, C.S. Lewis, Christian, Faith, Judaism, Judeo-Christian
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Is Faith Imagined?
Many people suspect so. And I don’t just mean the critics. Many people who believe wonder, “Am I just imagining this?” I used to hear as an objection to faith, “It’s wish-fulfillment. You wish there were such a thing as … Continue reading
Posted in Abraham Joshua Heschel, Atheism, Faith, J-BOM, Philosophy
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Sci-Fi, God, the Universe, and Us
Science fiction was my religion once. Asimov was my prophet and Clark too, and my teacher was Sagan. That was before I came to Jesus and Judaism. Some of the radical amazement I used to feel for the vastness of … Continue reading
Posted in Abraham Joshua Heschel, Atheism, Faith, Philosophy
Tagged Asimov, Fantasy, Immanuel Kant, Sagan, Science Fiction
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God in Search of Man, #4
Justin Bond sort of got the jump on me over at Messiah Connection. I had discussed possibly resurrecting J-BOM (the Jewish Book of the Month). And 3.5 people responded enthusiastically! I’d said let’s make Heschel’s God in Search of Man … Continue reading
Posted in Abraham Joshua Heschel, Atheism, Bible, Judaism, Philosophy
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God in Search of Man, #3
This is all part of a parallel series on Heschel’s God in Search of Man and Lewis’s Miracles. If Messianic Judaism is a sort of Christian-Jewish hybrid, why not study two the greatest modern thinkers, one from each? And the … Continue reading
Posted in Abraham Joshua Heschel, Bible, C.S. Lewis, Judaism, Philosophy
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God in Search of Man, #2
Since Messianic Judaism is a hybrid of Judaism and Christianity, I had the bright idea of doing a blog series on a great, modern thinker from Judaism and another from Christianity. Obviously (many will agree) the choice for Judaism is … Continue reading
Posted in Abraham Joshua Heschel, Bible, Judaism, Philosophy
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God in Search of Man, #1
Messianic Judaism is, in essence, a hybrid faith incorporating Jewish and Christian traditions and theology. I have for some time had in mind a project: reviewing some works by one Jewish and one Christian thinker who might be termed seminal … Continue reading
Posted in Abraham Joshua Heschel, Bible, Christian, Faith, Judaism, messianic, Messianic Jewish, Messianic Judaism
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