In his recently published book The Triumph of Life: A Narrative Theology of Judaism (The Jewish Publication Society) prominent modern Orthodox theologian Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg explores the ...
They talk about working with someone’s “God-concept,” and the way that people’s experience of God can be inhibited if they did not experience their own fathers as loving. They talk about learning to ...
There’s a growing issue festering in many of our modern-day Christian churches. The Bible is becoming less and less trusted as a reliable document. After all, it was written by men like David, who ...
After stepping down as chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary in the spring of 2020, Arnold Eisen found himself with the time and motivation to think about a big question he’d long put off as ...
This is a longer version of an essay published in The New York Times on Dec. 14, 2012. Recently I had quite an interesting conversation about the nature of God. I am an anthropologist, and in recent ...