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- The Philosophy of Emil Fackenheim
- The Philosophy of Emil Fackenheim
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction The Unending Struggle with Revelation in the Thought of Emil Fackenheim
- 1 What Is Faith?
- 2 Individual versus Collective, Rational versus Mystical
- 3 Revelation as a Possibility
- 4 On Authority, Tradition, and History
- 5 Divine Power versus Human Freedom
- 6 From Presence to History
- 7 Confronting Radical Evil as Rupture
- 8 Diabolical Revelation and the Holocaust
- 9 Negative Absolute and Fragmentary Transcendence
- Conclusion Revelation of the Diabolical Truth in History
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion - Revelation of the Diabolical Truth in History
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 October 2020
- The Philosophy of Emil Fackenheim
- The Philosophy of Emil Fackenheim
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction The Unending Struggle with Revelation in the Thought of Emil Fackenheim
- 1 What Is Faith?
- 2 Individual versus Collective, Rational versus Mystical
- 3 Revelation as a Possibility
- 4 On Authority, Tradition, and History
- 5 Divine Power versus Human Freedom
- 6 From Presence to History
- 7 Confronting Radical Evil as Rupture
- 8 Diabolical Revelation and the Holocaust
- 9 Negative Absolute and Fragmentary Transcendence
- Conclusion Revelation of the Diabolical Truth in History
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Fackenheim burst on the theological scene at a time when revelation was under assault. In the Jewish tradition, revelation has usually been expressed in the form of God speaking to man. Precisely how God speaks with human beings, however, is a fraught theological issue that has sparked a great deal of speculation. Most often this has arisen in the course of interpreting the biblical account of God’s original revelation to Moses, and its subsequent prophetic, rabbinic, philosophic, and mystical augmentations. Modern philosophic and literary criticism takes a very different approach to reality. It is predominantly, but not solely, historical; and it is on historical grounds that criticism of revelation has been a dominant theme of modern philosophic thought, if revelation has not been its chief target.
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- The Philosophy of Emil FackenheimFrom Revelation to the Holocaust, pp. 366 - 376Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020