TY  - BOOK
AU  - Held,Shai
TI  - Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence
SN  - 9780253011305 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BM755.H37 
U1  - 296.8 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 1907-1972
KW  - Jewish scholars -- United States -- Biography
KW  - Judaism -- Doctrines
KW  - Heschel Abraham Joshua--1907-1972--Teachings
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Doctrines
KW  - God (Judaism)
KW  - Electronic books.--local
KW  - RELIGION / Judaism / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations: Works by Abraham Joshua Heschel; Introduction; 1 Wonder, Intuition, and the Path to God; 2 Theological Method and Religious Anthropology: Heschel among the Christians; 3 Revelation and Co-Revelation; 4 The Pathos of the Self-Transcendent God; 5 ""Awake, Why Sleepest Thou, O Lord?"": Divine Silence and Human Protest in Heschel's Writings; 6 The Self That Transcends Itself: Heschel on Prayer; 7 Enabling Immanence: Prayer in a Time of Divine Hiddenness; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; No; p; r; s; t; u; v; w; z
N2  - Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) was a prolific scholar, impassioned theologian, and prominent activist who participated in the black civil rights movement and the campaign against the Vietnam War. He has been hailed as a hero, honored as a visionary, and endlessly quoted as a devotional writer. In this sympathetic, yet critical, examination, Shai Held elicits the overarching themes and unity of Heschel's incisive and insightful thought. Focusing on the idea of transcendence-or the movement from self-centeredness to God-centeredness-Held puts Heschel into dialogue with contemporary Jewish
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