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Ch. 9 Jewish theology today needs to retrieve prophetic theological ethics. Hermann Cohen and Abraham Joshua Heschel offer us compelling models for Jewish prophetic ethics that rely upon a righteous remnant.
Ch. 5 Two methods for Jewish theology are taken from analytic Jewish theology and Ricoeur’s hermeneutics to help build an analytic Jewish theology and a hermeneutical Jewish theology.
Ch. 4 Jewish theology today requires a soft and practical metaphysics upon which a positive theology can be built. Principles of God and Torah are taken from medieval Jewish philosophy and notions of creation, revelation, redemption, and Israel from the Bible.
Ch. 8 Jewish liturgy offers us a concise summary of Jewish theology. It gives us theological propositions, speech-acts, and testimonies about God. Liturgy offers a practical and dynamic Jewish theology that negotiates the contradiction of the God of Being and God as person.
Ch. 2 Post-Holocaust theology has undermined Jewish theology, ethics, practice, and hope. It is excessively negative and needs to be overcome with a positive theology of hope.
Ch. 6 New developments in science and philosophy can led to a new natural theology based on induction and probability. Natural theology today requires insights from the sciences, analytic philosophy, and hermeneutics.
Ch. 7 Analytic philosophy and hermeneutics offers two approaches to overcoming the contradiction between the God of Being and God as person. Analytic philosophy offers notions of paradox, modalism, and functionalism. And hermeneutics gives us the “face,” “spirit,” and “Name” of God.
Ch. 3 Postmodern theology is too negative. It has led to the development of excessive negative or radical apophatic theologies that must be replaced with positive theology.
Ch. 10 Climate Change requires Jewish theology to develop its resources for an Eco-Judaism. Shabbat is a celebration of creation of the world as Good. Martin Buber argues for a “prophetic” approach to climate change based on human responsibility and a theology of hope and redemption.
Does religious affiliation affect evaluations of the president’s policy performance? We examine support for President Barack Obama’s handling of seven policy areas using data from the Pew Research Center. We show that the intersection of race/ethnicity and religion drives support for Obama’s policy performance and that religion’s impact transcends that of partisanship. Compared to Black Protestants, Evangelical Protestants, non-Hispanic Catholics, and (to a lesser extent) seculars and mainline Protestants are significantly less approving of Obama’s policy performance. The most striking result in this study concerns the differences between Black Protestants and evangelicals, as the latter group is consistently opposed to Obama’s handling of policy, whether domestic or international. Taken together, our findings reveal that the political significance of religious affiliation on presidential policy approval intersects powerfully with race/ethnicity.