RS121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Maurice Challe, Theism, Rabbinic Judaism

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RS121
• Professor: Marybeth White

Document Summary

Michael lerner: judaism and tikkun: marx, as a sociologist. Alienation: depth psychology: freud & fromm, zen buddhism, rabbinic judaism. Focus on surrender to an outside power, which transcends humanity. Focus on empowering the individual, strengthening the ego. Principal virtues: independence, integrity, self-worth: principal sins: self-negation, submission, loss of reason. Mortality based on pursuit of good not fear of god. Part of our evolutionary heritage: necessary for survival. Having can become the whole of our personality. Not just materialist: we can have a personality, faith, a spouse, friends. Part of the human spirit, connection to god. Being is celebrated on the sabbath: no work, just sheer enjoyment and celebration. Religion in the being mode is a celebration of our common humanity. A jewish theory on the origins of violence. We may have germs of a biblical theory about origins of violence.