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| | Judaism: Seek My Face, Speak My Name: A Contemporary Theology. - book reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | The key problem is that the world and God are identified and that what is, is equated with what should or must be, with a corresponding deemphasis on messianic ethics and personal responsibility, a lack that Green tries powerfully to remedy by obiter dicta on equality, ecology, study, and patience. |
 | | Green's doctrine of creation is, as expected, influenced heavily by Kabbalistic notions of tsimtsum and hitpashtut, roughly, the contraction and overflowing of deity to make a world. |
 | | In this, Green reveals himself as a quintessential Reconstructionist for whom the whole of (Jewish) existence is (equally?) valuable and persuasive. |
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