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Introduction

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This volume presents a collection of essays examining contemporary Conservative Jewish theological perspectives on God, representing a significant departure from earlier academic discourse. The methodology employed combines intellectual rigor with experiential approaches, drawing upon prayer, textual study, social action, and lived experience as means of understanding the divine. The authors, many of whom are congregational rabbis with firsthand pastoral experience, demonstrate a marked absence of embarrassment in discussing God despite their full awareness of traditional theological challenges, including the problem of evil and scientific advances. The primary finding reveals a fundamental shift within Conservative Judaism from earlier deistic tendencies toward a renewed embrace of theism, with all contributors adopting a personal view of God possessing will, emotions, and the capacity to command. This represents both a quantitative and qualitative transformation in Conservative Jewish theological discourse, moving from historical analysis to constructive contemporary theology focused on present understanding and experience of the divine. The work demonstrates how Conservative Jewish thinkers at century's end have moved beyond restricting God-language to classical textual citations, instead placing discussions of God and spirituality at the center of Jewish intellectual engagement while maintaining intellectual honesty and scholarly rigor.

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    Published 1999

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