1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910814770803321

Autore

Friedman Maurice S

Titolo

A heart of wisdom : religion and human wholeness / / Maurice Friedman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, c1992

ISBN

1-4384-0336-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xiv, 254 pages)

Collana

SUNY series in religious studies

Disciplina

200

Soggetti

Religion

Religions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-240) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""Content""; ""PART ONE: A Way That One Walks""; ""Religion and the Religions""; ""PART TWO: Religions With Which I Have Been In Dialogue""; ""My Dialogue with the Religions""; ""The Biblical Covenant: Exile, Contending, and Trust""; ""Jesus: Image of the Human or Image of God?""; ""Hasidism""; ""PART THREE: Religious Communication""; ""The Meeting of Religion and Human Experience""; ""The Via Humana""

""Religious Symbolism and ""Universal"" Religion"" ""Legend, Myth, and Tale""; ""Religion and Literature""; ""Solitude and Community""; ""PART FOUR: The Tension Between Past and Present""; ""Peter Pan's Shadow: Tradition and Modernity""; ""The Dialectic Between Spirit and Form""; ""The Paradox of Religious Leadership""; ""PART FIVE: Religion and Human Wholeness""; ""Spontaneity, Decision, and Personal Wholeness""; ""Religion and Ethics: ""The Way to Do Is to Be""""; ""World View and Existential Trust""; ""Is Religion the Enemy of Humankind?""; ""Back Matter""; ""Notes""; ""INDEX""    ; ""Back Cover""