What are the Limits of Protest Theology? A Review Essay Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism, Dov Weiss, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017 (ISBN 978-0-8122-4835-7), xii + 287pp., hb 69.95 Facing the Abusing God: A Theology of Protest, David R. Blumenthal, Westminster/John Knox, Louisville, 1993 (ISBN 978-0664254643), xxviii + 319 pp., pb 40
Pious Irreverence presents the classic rabbinic traditions that embody, or allow, protest of God's actions as well as the anti-protest tradition that opposed criticism of God. By arranging this material chronologically, Weiss is able to analyze the development of both traditions. He concludes t...
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| Language: | English |
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2017
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Reviews in religion and theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 620-625 |
| Review of: | Facing the abusing God (Louisville, Ky. : Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993) (Blumenthal, David R.)
Facing the abusing God (Louisville, Ky. : Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993) (Blumenthal, David R.) |
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B Book review B Dialogue B Pious Irreverence B Facing the Abusing God B David Blumenthal B protest theology B Dov Weiss B Rabbinic Judaism |
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| Summary: | Pious Irreverence presents the classic rabbinic traditions that embody, or allow, protest of God's actions as well as the anti-protest tradition that opposed criticism of God. By arranging this material chronologically, Weiss is able to analyze the development of both traditions. He concludes that the rabbis expanded the anthropomorphic and anthropopathic semantic field and, in so doing, allowed very deep criticism of God as a sign of God's intimacy with the Jewish people. Blumenthal, reflecting on Facing the Abusing God: A Theology of Protest, twenty-five years after its publication, in light of the new material brought forth by Weiss, enters into a dialogue in which he shares second thoughts about his earlier work. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9418 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/rirt.13034 |