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| December 2005 Highlights
Theology Issue |
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|  Neil Gillman: A recent encounter with a rabbinical student forced me confront a reality that I had long tried to avoid. We were discussing God: How do we know about God? What can we say about God? and the rest, when the student's hand shot up. "Why are we discussing all of this? What we need from you is some practical help on how to get Jews to have a kosher home or keep Shabbat. Theology is irrelevant."
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| Arthur Green: Creation has been the neglected question in modern Jewish theology. Partly because the issue did not fit well with the particularist agenda (“How are we different from our Christian neighbors?”), but, also because we feared taking a clear position either supporting or opposing evolutionary theory, Jewish thinkers have remained mostly silent on the subject of life’s origins.
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| Lawrence Troster: Central to the creation of a new Jewish environmental theology is the necessity of grounding this theology in the recent discussions about the relationship between science and religion, found mostly so far in Christian circles. In his approach to creation theology, Arthur Green has suggested a typology for that relationship in which religious language and scientific language exist in separate but equally valid realms.
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| Michael Cohen: We are told that the Land of Israel was assigned to us as a sacred trust. That trust, if we are to take it seriously includes the care of its holy soil, water, air, and animal life. The health of the land is also a good barometer of the health of the Zionist movement. Zionism stands not just for returning the People to the Land, but also the care of that very Land so that the Jewish People may thrive on it.
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| Jay Michaelson: Notwithstanding the rhetoric of denial prevalent in some religious circles, sexual orientation is known, by those with first-hand experience of homosexuality as well as by scientists who study it, to be either genetically determined or so deeply developmentally ingrained as to be fundamentally unchangeable. For Jews, this reality of gay and lesbian identity presents a theological question: Why does God make some people gay?
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| "Unfreezing the concept of revelation from the simplistic dictation metaphor does not require a non-traditional theological framework. The blurring of boundaries between the divine word and the human interpreter is already evident."
Tamar Ross, Can Traditional Jewish Theology Sustain the Feminist Critique?
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