Theological Impressionism.

From: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life andThought | Date: March 22, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

IT IS A COMMONPLACE THAT DOGMA IS A CONCEPT THAT is not at home in Judaism. Doctrine--a concept with a softer ring--is another matter. As with the Maimonidean "principles of faith," doctrine has occasionally found its way even into the liturgy. But doctrine is largely absent in the primary religious works--the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and the Talmud. These works speak of God impressionistically, thus my title. Their mode of description is as remote from definition as poetry is from mathematics. Their imagery is strikingly anthropomorphic. Medieval philosophical theology, by contrast ...

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