What we Jews believe.
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Cincinnati,
Union of American Hebrew Congregations,
1931.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Cohon, Samuel Solomon, |d 1888-1959. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a What we Jews believe. |c [By] Samuel S. Cohon. |
| 260 | 0 | |a Cincinnati, |b Union of American Hebrew Congregations, |c 1931. | |
| 300 | |a xii, 196 p. |c 20 cm. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Religion -- I. Revaluation of religion -- Religions and religion -- Origin of religion -- The religious consciousness -- The holy -- The function of religion -- Judaism -- II. Judaism as a religion -- Why religions differ -- Defining Judaism -- History of Judaism -- Characteristics of Judaism -- III. Divisions in present day Judaism -- East-European Judaism -- 1. Hasidism -- 2. The opposition to Hasidism -- West-European Judaism -- 1. Reform -- 2. Orthodoxy -- 3. Neo-Orthodoxy -- 4. Conservatism -- American Judaism -- IV. The core of Judaism -- The threefold path -- Creedal elements -- The maimonidean creed -- Revisions of the creed -- Israel -- V. The people of Israel -- Judaism and the Jewish people -- National consciousness -- Conflicting national ideals -- The chosen people -- The mission of Israel -- The congregation of Israel -- VI. Israel among the nations -- jewish proselytism -- The Messianic hope in the Bible -- Supernatural Messianism -- Messianism in Jewish history -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Changed outlook of reform -- VII. Israel today -- jewish nationalism -- Zionism -- Oppostition to Zionism -- The Jewish will to live -- What makes a Jew -- Torah -- VIII. The Torah of Israel -- The Jewish legacy and heritage -- Meaning of Torah -- 1. Torah of the preists -- 2. Torah of the prophets -- 3. Torah of the sages -- The written Torah -- The oral Torah -- Modern view of Torah -- God -- IX. The God of Israel -- Growing knowledge of God -- The idea of God in Judaism -- X. Ways of knowing God -- Revelation and inspiration -- Reason and intuition -- God and the gods -- XI. The cosmic God -- mechanism and intelligence -- Transcendence and immanence -- The newer scientific outlook -- XII. The personal God -- The idea of personality -- Unity of God -- divine law and love -- Positive and negative attributes -- God in human life -- Man -- XIII. The Jewish view of man -- What is man? -- Man as animal -- The humanity of man -- Man a co-worker of God -- The soul of man -- Immortality -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a XIV. Gathering the threads -- Topics for discussion. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Judaism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Reform Judaism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Judaism |x Customs and practices. | |
| 988 | |a 20020608 | ||
| 906 | |0 OCLC | ||