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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Veröffentlicht in:Religious studies
1. VerfasserIn: Lebens, Samuel 1983- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Univ. Press [2015]
In: Religious studies
Jahr: 2015, Band: 51, Heft: 2, Seiten: 183-204
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Leiner, Mordechai Joseph 1802-1854 / Chassidismus / Welt / Gott / Traum
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1469-901X
Enthält:Enthalten in: Religious studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0034412514000298