Judaism Without Supernaturalism
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Judaism Without Supernaturalism is a work by Mordecai Kaplan that articulates his Reconstructionist vision of Judaism as an evolving religious civilization grounded in naturalistic and non-theistic principles.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Judaism Without Supernaturalism canonical | 2 |
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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theological work ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
make Judaism intellectually credible in the modern age
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provide a non-supernatural foundation for Jewish life ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement |
Reconstructionist Judaism
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surface form:
Reconstructionist movement in Judaism
|
| audience |
Jewish laity interested in theology
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Jewish religious leaders ⓘ scholars of religion ⓘ |
| author | Mordecai Kaplan ⓘ |
| contextOfCreation | 20th-century American Judaism ⓘ |
| critiques |
literal belief in miracles
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literalist understandings of revelation ⓘ traditional supernaturalist theology ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
Jewish civilization
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Jewish peoplehood ⓘ ethical and cultural dimensions of Judaism ⓘ historical development of Jewish tradition ⓘ reinterpretation of Jewish beliefs in modern terms ⓘ |
| field |
Jewish studies
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philosophy of religion ⓘ |
| genre |
Jewish thought
ⓘ
religious philosophy ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
humanistic
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modernist ⓘ |
| influenced |
Reconstructionist Jewish thought
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liberal Jewish theology ⓘ religious naturalist approaches to Judaism ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Mordecai Kaplan's Reconstructionist philosophy ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Jewish theology
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Judaism as an evolving religious civilization ⓘ Reconstructionist Judaism ⓘ non-theistic Judaism ⓘ religious naturalism ⓘ |
| philosophicalStance |
naturalism
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non-supernaturalism ⓘ |
| proposes |
functional reinterpretation of God-language
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reconstruction of Jewish belief and practice ⓘ |
| proposesViewOfJudaismAs | evolving religious civilization ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
civilizational view of religion
ⓘ
process understanding of religious tradition ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Judaism as a Civilization ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Judaism ⓘ |
| theologicalPosition |
non-theism
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rejection of a personal supernatural God ⓘ rejection of supernatural revelation ⓘ |
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