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The Theology of Seder Eliahu: A Study in Organic Thinking
Contributor(s): Kadushin, Max (Author)
ISBN: 1586841009     ISBN-13: 9781586841003
Publisher: Distribution Partners
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2001
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Theology
- Religion | Judaism - General
Series: Global Academic Publishing
Physical Information: 245 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Jewish
 
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In this study of Seder Eliahu, the author endeavors to describe the various rabbinic ideas the book contains, and, in addition, the principle of coherence uniting these ideas. The attempt to discover a coherent unity in rabbinic theology is a hazardous undertaking. However, the author believes that we ought not to reconcile ourselves to accepting rabbinic theology as a congeries of ideas unrelated to each other, an inarticulate mass of separate concepts. Despite the warnings of Schechter and Moore, the author attempted for a time to cast the rabbinic concepts in the Seder into some sort of logical order. A careful analysis yielded the conviction that this Midrash does possess coherence, but of an entirely different kind from that produced by logical, systematic thought. The author calls this type of thinking organic thinking or harmonious thinking. In the light of the organic coherence of rabbinic theology, the individual concepts reveal a structure otherwise not to be discerned.