A Jewish Public Theology

God and the Global City

Abraham Unger

A Jewish Public Theology draws from Halakhah, Jewish law, to address some of the most searing current policy issues. Abraham Unger examines how Jewish tradition speaks to globalization and its attendant political and economic cleavages. Classical Jewish thought sits on a perch outside of the defining parameters of the global political conversation and as such cannot be pigeon holed as populist, leftist, or rightist. Judaism was born in antiquity and therefore predates by millennia these current ideological biases. That intellectual distance, both due to the long arc of Jewish history, and outsider minority status as a tradition, allows for a critical distance. Unger explores how the Jewish tradition compels the living out of a public policy framework through the forging of equitable communities using arguments that go beyond political orthodoxies. In this socially fragile era, the possibility of that message offers a hopeful discourse of significant possibility for all humankind. « less more »

Lexington Books

Pages: 126 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-4985-3587-8 • Hardback • October 2018 • $85.00 • (£54.95)

978-1-4985-3588-5 • eBook • October 2018 • $80.50 • (£54.95)

Subjects: Religion / Judaism / Theology, Political Science / General, Religion / General, Religion / Judaism / History, Social Science / Sociology / Urban

A Jewish Public Theology

God and the Global City

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Summary

A Jewish Public Theology draws from Halakhah, Jewish law, to address some of the most searing current policy issues. Abraham Unger examines how Jewish tradition speaks to globalization and its attendant political and economic cleavages. Classical Jewish thought sits on a perch outside of the defining parameters of the global political conversation and as such cannot be pigeon holed as populist, leftist, or rightist. Judaism was born in antiquity and therefore predates by millennia these current ideological biases. That intellectual distance, both due to the long arc of Jewish history, and outsider minority status as a tradition, allows for a critical distance. Unger explores how the Jewish tradition compels the living out of a public policy framework through the forging of equitable communities using arguments that go beyond political orthodoxies. In this socially fragile era, the possibility of that message offers a hopeful discourse of significant possibility for all humankind.

Book Details

Lexington Books

Pages: 126 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-4985-3587-8 • Hardback • October 2018 • $85.00 • (£54.95)

978-1-4985-3588-5 • eBook • October 2018 • $80.50 • (£54.95)

Subjects: Religion / Judaism / Theology, Political Science / General, Religion / General, Religion / Judaism / History, Social Science / Sociology / Urban

Author

Abraham Unger is associate professor and director of urban programs in the Department of Government and Politics at Wagner College and senior research fellow at the Carey Institute of Government Reform.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Is there a Jewish Public Theology?

Chapter 2: A Theology of Stewardship: Tikkun Olam and the Rabbinic Canon

Chapter 3: Covenantal Values and the Post-Global State

Chapter 4: Judaism, Democracy, and the City

Chapter 5: Halakhah and a Global Politics of Cooperation

Reviews

Unger’s well situated—possibly uniquely well situated—to have written this book.
— The Jewish Standard

A Jewish Public Theology

God and the Global City

Abraham Unger

A Jewish Public Theology

God and the Global City

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