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Morality and Religion The Jewish Story
The relationship between morality and religion has long been controversial, familiar in its formulation as Euthyphro’s dilemma: Is an act right...
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Reconciling Meticulous Divine Providence with Objective Chance
Randomness can be defined in terms of objective probability: an event is random just in case its objective probability (in the circumstances) is...
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Can Mosque and State Be Separated? Should They? The ‘Divine Pattern,’ Freedom, and Modernity
Can religion and state be separated from each other in an Islamic context? This chapter takes both historical and theoretical approaches to this...
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Introduction
This chapter presents the leitmotif of the book—the dependence of morality on religion. This is a longstanding question that was first posed in...
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The Akedah in Jewish Tradition
This chapter contends with the command to Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. In Kierkegaard’s thought, the binding of Isaac reflects the believer’s...
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Halakhah and the Dependence Thesis
The key argument of this chapter is that the rejection of DCM in Jewish tradition is not random. Halakhah and the endorsement of autonomy is the...
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R. Israel Moses Hazan: Particularism and Universalism
The halakhic discourse is the central endeavor of Jewish tradition. Judaism is not a philosophy but a way of life, and analyzing the world of...
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Living in the World by Dying to the Self: Swami Vivekananda’s Modernist Reconfigurations of a Premodern Vedāntic Dialectic
This article is an exploration of the dialectic of this-worldly activism and the practice of self-effacement in Swami Vivekananda’s discourses. He...
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Between the Duty of Obedience and the Thesis of Dependence
Ostensibly, the supreme principle of Jewish religion is the duty of absolute obedience to God. Believers are God’s subjects and, as such, compelled...
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DCM in Rabbinic Literature
Indications of apparent support for the DCM thesis can be found in rabbinic sources. Thus, one talmudic statement determines that God issues...
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Four Ways of Understanding Mystical Experience
The intentional structure of conscious knowing, and the emergent nature of being, together with a conception of discovery in science and aesthetic...
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Randomness and Providence in Christian Thought
The problem of randomness and providence is not new. Rather, there is a long history of sophisticated thought in response to this problem, which can...
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The Role of Sunnah in Conflict Resolution and Peacemaking
The Sunnah is an essential aspect of Islamic guidance. It serves as a guiding light for Muslims in various aspects of life, including the art of...
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The Autonomous Perspective in Jewish Thought
This chapter deals with a stance that explicitly and consciously rejects the DCM thesis in Jewish philosophy as an unsuitable expression of Jewish...
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Existential Humility and the Critique of Civil Religion in Augustine’s Political Theology
In this chapter I explore Augustine’s political theology, with a focus on his critique of civil religion. The ancient Greek, Roman, and Jewish...
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Prophecy, Power, and the Problem of Love
Chapters 6 and 7 offer our two-pronged constructive account of...
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Beyond Critique: Just War as Theological Political Theology
This chapter takes up a charge often directed to neo-Augustinians by neo-Anabaptists that their defense of just war lacks adequate theological...
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Finding Resonance: Religion and Moral Injury
The military experience presents novel moral dilemmas and traumatic experiences in the lives of service members. This chapter explores how service...
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Military Chaplains and the Two-Collar Problem
This chapter explores the role and history of military chaplains. Religion has been a part of the US military since its infancy under the Continental...
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Augustine and the Flexibility of True Justice
Augustine’s attitude toward changing times was marked by a great deal of flexibility. This attitude was the result, however, of studied reflection on...