Judaism, Darwinism, and the Typology of Suffering
Abstract. Darwinism has attracted proportionately less attention from Jewish thinkers than from Christian thinkers. One significant reason for the disparity is that the theodicies created by Jews to contend with the catastrophes which punctuated Jewish history are equally suited to address the massi...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2011
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Zygon
Année: 2011, Volume: 46, Numéro: 2, Pages: 317-329 |
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Eliezer Berkovits
B Tsimtsoum B Exile B Darwinism B Immanence B hiding of God's face B Abraham Joshua Heschel B Évolution B Theodicy B divine self-restraint B Typology B Suffering B post-Holocaust theology B Hans Jonas |
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| Résumé: | Abstract. Darwinism has attracted proportionately less attention from Jewish thinkers than from Christian thinkers. One significant reason for the disparity is that the theodicies created by Jews to contend with the catastrophes which punctuated Jewish history are equally suited to address the massive extinctions which characterize natural history. Theologies of divine hiddenness, restraint, and radical immanence, coming together in the sixteenth-century mystical cosmogony of Isaac Luria, have been rehabilitated and reworked by modern Jewish thinkers in the post-Darwin era. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01175.x |