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,...
| Publicado en: | Religious studies |
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2015]
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Religious studies
Año: 2015, Volumen: 51, Número: 2, Páginas: 183-204 |
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Leiner, Mordechai Joseph 1802-1854
/ Hasidismo
/ Mundo
/ Dios
/ Sueño
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| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | BH Judaísmo NBC Dios |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |
| Sumario: | 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 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412514000298 |