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Louis Jacobs and the Quest for a Contemporary Jewish Theology

Louis Jacobs and the Quest for a Contemporary Jewish Theology

Freud-Kandel, Miri

Hardcover

Series: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

Religious BiographiesReligion General Judaism

ISBN10: 1906764883
ISBN13: 9781906764883
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Published: Nov 1 2023
Pages: 422
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.80 Width: 6.40 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

For Louis Jacobs, the quest--the process of engaging with and thinking about Jewish faith--was a lifelong pursuit. He offered a model in the 1960s, a period characterized by general religious crisis, of an observant, committed, but intellectually curious Judaism that empowered individual seekers to address challenges to faith. In Orthodox Judaism at the time a battle was under way for religious control. Generating a widespread controversy in British Jewry known as the 'Jacobs Affair', his thought offers a lens for examining the trajectory of Orthodoxy. In a contemporary context marked by the changing cultural and intellectual concerns of a 'post-secular' age, the focus of some of these debates over religious control has shifted. Yet Jacobs' emphasis on a personal quest is as relevant as ever, perhaps more so.

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