An intimate and candid examination of the changing nature of belief
and where it can lead us--from the life experience of one of Judaism's
leading thinkers.
For over five decades, Rabbi Neil Gillman has helped people think
through the most challenging questions at the heart of being a believing
religious person. In this intimate rethinking of his own theological
journey he explores the changing nature of belief and the complexities
of reconciling the intellectual, emotional and moral questions of his
own searching mind and soul.
- If what we have in recognizing, speaking of and experiencing God is a
wide-ranging treasury of humanly crafted metaphors, what, then, is the
ultimate reality, the ultimate nature of God? What lies beyond the
metaphors?
- If humanity was an active partner in revelation--if the human
community participated in what was revealed and gave it meaning--what
then should be the authority of Jewish law?
- How do we cope--intellectually, emotionally and morally--with
suffering, the greatest challenge to our faith commitment,
relationship with God and sense of a fundamentally ordered world?
- Death is inevitable but why is it built in as part of the total life
experience?