
Mordecai M. Kaplan, founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement, is the only rabbi to have been excommunicated by the Orthodox rabbinical establishment in America. Kaplan was indeed a radical, rejecting such fundamental Jewish beliefs as the concept of the chosen people and a supernatural God. Although he valued the Jewish community and was a committed Zionist, his primary concern was the spi...
Series: The Modern Jewish Experience
Paperback: 360 pages
Publisher: Indiana University Press; Reprint edition (March 19, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780253017116
ISBN-13: 978-0253017116
ASIN: 0253017114
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 9.2 inches
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Rabbi Kaplan was certainly one of the most important Jewish leaders of the 20th century. He attempted to integrate modern thought, especially sociology and psychology, but also at least implicitly modern physics, into forming a view of Judaism as a ...
illment of the individual. Drawing on Kaplan's 27-volume diary, Mel Scult describes the development of Kaplan's radical theology in dialogue with the thinkers and writers who mattered to him most, from Spinoza to Emerson and from Ahad Ha-Am and Matthew Arnold to Felix Adler, John Dewey, and Abraham Joshua Heschel. This gracefully argued book, with its sensitive insights into the beliefs of a revolutionary Jewish thinker, makes a powerful contribution to modern Judaism and to contemporary American religious thought.