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Article: Love and Terror in the God Encounter: the Theological Legacy of Rabbi Joseph B. Solovietchik.
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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By DAVID HARTMAN, Jewish Lights. 256 pp. $25.
IN RECENT YEARS, sociologists, historians, and cultural theorists have documented the struggle over the identity of American Orthodox Judaism. Specifically, they have concentrated on the faction that refers to itself as "Modern Orthodoxy." Modern Orthodoxy has argued that a Jew can simultaneously be a committed religious person and be engaged in American culture, politics, and academic lire. Since the death of its intellectual and spiritual leader, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903-1993), the Modern Orthodox world has been divided over the value and religious permissibility of advocating such a position. Modern ...