RT Article
T1 God and his imaginary friends: a Hassidic metaphysics
JF Religious studies
VO 51
IS 2
SP 183
OP 204
A1 Lebens, Samuel 1983-
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1569752516
AB 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.
DO 10.1017/S0034412514000298