God's Kindness Has Overwhelmed Us: A Contemporary Doctrine of the Jews as the Chosen People
Jerome (Yehuda) Gellman, "God's Kindness Has Overwhelmed Us: A Contemporary Doctrine of the Jews as the Chosen People "
English | ISBN: 1618111701 | 2012 | 120 pages | PDF | 628 KB
English | ISBN: 1618111701 | 2012 | 120 pages | PDF | 628 KB
Jerome Gellman presents a new theology of the Jews as the Chosen People, addressing self-serving ethnocentric supremacy, cultural isolation, and defamation of religions other than Judaism. This book is traditional in taking chosenness and the truth of Judaism seriously, and in eschewing a theology of multiple covenants. At the same time, it is critical, rejecting previous concepts of chosenness, and innovative, offering for the twenty-first century a fresh way of seeing the Jews’ place in the world. On this foundation, Gellman suggests a new approach to inter-religious understanding from a Jewish point of view, and examines the impact of his proposal on traditional Jewish liturgy.