Lexington Books
Pages: 126
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Trim: 6 1/2 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)
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.
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
Rabbi Abraham Unger brilliantly outlines in this succinct book the scope of a Jewish public theology, one conceived under the shadow of Sinai and its Divine Lawgiver, but still open to humanistic dialogue with other people of faith and even with people of no explicit faith. Not since the days of Abraham Joshua Heschel, Reinhold and Richard Niebuhr, and John Courtney Murray has there been such an eloquent spokesperson for political thought enlightened by faith. In a time of worldwide political dyspepsia this book offers an antidote for public hatred and venomous speech. I recommend Unger’s work with the greatest enthusiasm.
— Patrick J. Ryan, Fordham University
Unger’s well situated—possibly uniquely well situated—to have written this book.
— The Jewish Standard