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Modern Orthodox Theology in a Post-Soloveitchik World

JL;DR SUMMARY In his review, David Fried discusses Daniel Ross Goodman's book "Soloveitchik's Children," which examines the theological impact of R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik on modern Orthodox thinkers Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, and Jonathan Sacks. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish EthicsCreativityTheologyModern OrthodoxHalakhahJoseph B. SoloveitchikTzelem ElokimJonathan SacksDavid HartmanIrving Greenberg

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Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
"Review of Daniel Ross Goodman, Soloveitchiks Children: Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America, (University of Alabama Press, 2023)."
Brighton, Massachusetts, United States
"who might genuinely command the unethical. Rather, it is about trusting that God has better judgment of what is ethical in any given situation than we do. Indeed, within The Lonely Man of Faith, it is Adam II, the submissive personality, who has the ethical sensibilities, and Adam I, the more active one, who does not. For the Rav, submission to the Torah was identical with submission to ethics.5 Sacks, for his part (39-40), criticized Hartman and Greenberg not for demanding harmony between halakhah and ethics, but for what he perceived as their unquestioning acceptance of certain key modern values in how they evaluated the ethical. It is worth pointing out... Brighton, MA. Perhaps the greatest irony, though, as Goodman quotes from David Shatz (114), is that much of the content of Confrontation itself is borrowed from Christian theologian Karl Barth."

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