God and his imaginary friends: a Hassidic metaphysics
What happens when you assume that the world is a dream in the mind of God, or that the world's history is a story that God is spinning? Focusing on the role that this assumption plays in the thought of Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner (1801-1854), at least as it is understood by Rabbi Herzl Hefter,...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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[2015]
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Religious studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 183-204 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Leiner, Mordechai Joseph 1802-1854
/ Hassidism
/ World
/ God
/ Dream
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IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism NBC Doctrine of God |
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Summary: | What happens when you assume that the world is a dream in the mind of God, or that the world's history is a story that God is spinning? Focusing on the role that this assumption plays in the thought of Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner (1801-1854), at least as it is understood by Rabbi Herzl Hefter, I argue that this assumption generates interesting solutions to old riddles in the philosophy of religion and interesting insights into the nature of religious language. |
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ISSN: | 1469-901X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412514000298 |