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Loading... Abraham Joshua Heschel: Essential Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters) (edition 2011)by Susannah Heschel, Susannah Heschel (Editor)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I'd read a little bit of Rabbi Heschel's writings before reading this collection of excerpts grouped around several themes. These selections are a wonderful introduction to his life and work, including unpublished writing, speeches and excerpts from his books. His daughter, a scholar in her own right, supplements her father's writings with biography and introductions to each section that give depth and context to the passages she has chosen. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Abraham Heschel (1907-1972) was one of the great religious teachers and moral prophets of our time. Born in Warsaw to a long line of Hasidic rabbis, he chose instead to study philosophy in Germany. Expelled back to Warsaw, he escaped just weeks before the Nazi invasion and settled in the United States. Through a series of books he contributed greatly to the spiritual renewal of Judaism. But he exerted an equal influence on Christians, so much that he was called another apostle to the gentiles. A passionate champion of interfaith dialogue, he served as an official observer at Vatican II and was influential in challenging the Catholic church to overcome the legacy of anti-Semitism. He raised a prophetic challenge to the social issues of his day, marching with Martin Luther King and protesting the Vietnam war. His writings here on prayer, God, prophecy, the human condition, and the spiritual life vividly communicate his instinct for the holy dimension of all existence. No library descriptions found. |
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