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Desert Wrapup--pure love
Desert Wrapup
Date: 4/16/2012 6:08:39 AM ( 12 y ) ... viewed 1411 times I Will Add More in the Morning
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God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
PV Reverses this; A Spiritual philosophy relevant again
Beginning with the first page of this book, I was hooked on Heschel. In one paragraph, he summed up my thoughts on the religious experience and the problems with religion in modern society.
“It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats. Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion--its message becomes meaningless.”
God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25783543
The Earth and the Soul are Soilmates
--Leslie GOldman, Your Enchanted Gardener
I want to comment on this:
The Desanctification Of Nature
“Biblical thinking succeeded in subduing the universal tendency of ancient man to endow nature with a mysterious potency like mana and orenda by stressing the indication in all nature of the wisdom and goodness of the Creator.
One of the great achievements of the prophets was the repudiation of nature as an object of adoration. They tried to teach us that neither nature’s beauty nor grandeur, neither power nor the state, neither money nor things of space are worthy of our supreme adoration, love, sacrifice, or self-dedication. Yet the desanctification of nature did not in any way bring about an alienation of nature. It brought man together with all things in a fellowship of praise. The
Biblical man could say that he was “in league with the stones of the field” (Job) (pg. 90-91)
“To the Biblical man, the power of G-d is behind all phenomena, and he is more concerned to know the will of G-d who governed nature than to know the order of nature itself. Important and impressive as nature is to him, G-d is vastly more so.” (pg. 92)
From Site on Heschel...
http://philoofreligion.blogspot.com/
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