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The God Upgrade: Finding Your 21st-Century Spirituality in Judaism's 5,000-Year-Old Tradition

Autor Rabbi Jamie S. Korngold
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 mar 2011
A provocative look at how changing ideas of God have shaped every aspect of Judaism. With enthusiasm and humor, aligns our understanding of God with modern sensibilities for a meaningful Judaism that is fully compatible with twenty-first-century life.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781683363699
ISBN-10: 1683363698
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Turner

Notă biografică

Rabbi Jamie S. Korngold, the Adventure Rabbi, has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today and many other media outlets for her innovative work in Judaism. Founder and spiritual leader of the Adventure Rabbi Program, she is a popular retreat leader and speaker on the topics of Judaism and Jewish life. She is the author of God in the Wilderness: Rediscovering the Spirituality of the Great Outdoors.


Cuprins

Foreword xiii
Introduction: Running God System 1.0 in a 2.0 World xv

Part I
THE ISSUES WITH GOD 1.0

Chapter 1
Looking for Lightning 3

Chapter 2
They Taught You That in Sunday School? 8

Chapter 3
God Envy 14

Part II
UPGRADES THROUGH THE CENTURIES

Chapter 4
God 1.0-When the World Was Flat, God Had It Easy 23

Chapter 5
God 1.1-Therapist with Superpowers 26

Chapter 6
God 1.2-On the Farm with God 31

Chapter 7
God 1.3-Discovery of the Afterlife 34

Chapter 8
God 1.4-Arguing with God 40

Chapter 9
God 1.5-Maimonides on What God Is Not 43

Chapter 10
God 1.6-Spinoza's Spin on God 50

Part III
TWENTIETH-CENTURY UPGRADES

Chapter 11
God 1.7-Rabbi Harold Kushner on When Bad Things Happen to Good People 61

Chapter 12
God 1.75-Rabbi Harold Schulweis Says God Is in the Grammar 66

Chapter 13
God 1.8-Rabbi Martin Buber's I-Thou 68

Chapter 14
God 1.9-Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Praying with Our Feet 73

Part IV
GOD 2.0-GOD IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Chapter 15
God and the Big Bang 77

Chapter 16
Finding God on a Mesa 81

Chapter 17
According to What Authority? 89

Part V
JUDAISM 2.0-A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF GOD ENABLES A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF JUDAISM

Chapter 18
Why Do I Feel Attached to Judaism Even Though I Never Go to Synagogue? 95

Chapter 19
Who Wrote the Torah? 102

Chapter 20
Does God Hear Our Prayers? 108

Chapter 21
My Life Is Already Overbooked. Why Should I Make Time for Judaism? 115

Chapter 22
What Happens When We Die? 123

Chapter 23
Judaism 2.0-The Upgrade 126

Acknowledgments 131
Appendix: 36 Large and Small Ways to Make Judaism Relevant and Meaningful in Your Life, Especially If You Don't Believe There Is a God Up in the Sky Who Can Come Down Here and Fix Things! 133
Notes 139
Bibliography 141