Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) was one of the twentieth century’s most influential Jewish thinkers; a respected theologian and enthusiastic civil rights activist who marched to Selma with Martin Luther King; Jr. His theology emphasized the immediacy of wonder and awe; yet his writing was studded with signs of his vast knowledge of traditional scholarship. No other Jewish thinker of note in the twentieth century used such a wide range of texts so extensively. Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Sources of Wonder is the first book to demonstrate how Heschel’s political; intellectual; and spiritual commitments were embedded in his reading of Jewish tradition. By shedding new light on how Heschel’s theological project reconciled the demands of tradition and the modern world; Michael Marmur offers an inspirational lesson in how contemporary Jewish thought can embrace both the texts of the past and the challenges of the present.
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