Theology--what's important to you? by Elana Ackerman-Hirsch https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m Rank the top three quotes that resonate the most with you. en-us 2022-01-16 19:18:28 UTC 2022-01-20 04:12:50 UTC hello@padlet.com God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived. -Baruch Spinoza(Medieval non-supernaturalism) elana14 https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994616458 2022-01-16 19:20:42 UTC https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994616458 “When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.” ― Martin Buber(Relational Theology) elana14 https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994616630 2022-01-16 19:20:52 UTC https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994616630 Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.-Erich Fromm (Humanistic Judaism) elana14 https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994616765 2022-01-16 19:21:04 UTC https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994616765 The traditional conception of God is challenged by history, anthropology and psychology; these prove that beliefs similar to those found in the Bible about God arise among all peoples at a certain stage of mental and social development.-Mordechai Kaplan(Naturalistic Theology) elana14 https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994616883 2022-01-16 19:21:12 UTC https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994616883 Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.-Abraham Joshua Heschel elana14 https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994616993 2022-01-16 19:21:20 UTC https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994616993 Predicate theology” means that when we find statements about God that say, “God is love, God is truth, God is the friend of the poor,” we concentrate on the predicate rather than on the subject... They are not things that God does; they are things that we do, and when we do them, God is present in our lives.-Harold Kushner elana14 https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994617129 2022-01-16 19:21:30 UTC https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994617129 [The use of male language] is no longer simply a way of pointing to God but is identified with God, so that any change in the image seems to defame or disparage God “himself.” The claim that only male language can be used for God attributes ultimacy to particular male symbols. It then becomes maleness that is worshiped instead of God. –Judith Plaskow elana14 https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994617390 2022-01-16 19:21:46 UTC https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994617390 I find this Ultimate to be of such superlative quality as to lift me far above myself in aspiration and, often, in consequent action. I am surprised, grateful, honored, commissioned by this intimacy with the Other that I and our people call, let me say it, God.”-Eugene Borowitz elana14 https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994617508 2022-01-16 19:21:55 UTC https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994617508 All we understand is the fact that [God] exists, that [God] is a being to whom none of Adonai’s creatures is similar. [Metaphors] serve only to convey to us the idea that God rules the universe, that it is [God] that gives it duration and preserves its necessary arrangement. -Maimonides elana14 https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994617642 2022-01-16 19:22:05 UTC https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994617642 Prior to Creation, there was only the infinite filling all existence. When it arose in God's Will to create worlds and emanate the emanated ... He contracted (in Hebrew "tzimtzum")... In the space of that void God emanated, created, formed and made all the worlds.-Kabbalistic Theology of Isaac Luria elana14 https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994617747 2022-01-16 19:22:14 UTC https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994617747 We are commanded, first, to survive as Jews, lest the Jewish people perish. We are commanded, second, to remember our very guts and bones the martyrs of the Holocaust, lest their memory perish. We are forbidden, thirdly, to deny or despair of God, however much we may have to contend with him or with belief in him, lest Judaism perish. We are forbidden, finally, to despair of the world as the place which is to become the kingdom of God, lest we help make it a meaningless place in which God is dead or irrelevant and everything is permitted.Emil Fackenheim’s 614th Commandment elana14 https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994617873 2022-01-16 19:22:24 UTC https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994617873 Rather than cling to this outmoded (and unbiblical/unrabbinic) philosophical notion of God and power, Process Thinking offers a way to recover a biblically and rabbinically resonant, dynamic articulation of God, world, and covenant, integrating that portrayal with contemporary scientific knowledge of the cosmos and of life into a philosophy worthy of our engagement. Of course, that dynamic understanding of a God discovered in relationship alters our understanding of the world and its beginnings as well.Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson - Process Theology elana14 https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994618016 2022-01-16 19:22:36 UTC https://padlet.com/elana14/rmzafl8qhvuq3i3m/wish/1994618016