To Make a Rainbow - God’s Work in Nature

The Torah lays out a rich idea of God’s governance in the Scroll of Esther: Circumstance lays the warp, but human choices weave the woof of destiny. God remains unseen. Delegation of agency, including human freedom, is implicit in the act of creation: God does not clutch efficacy jealously to his breast. Biblically, God acts through nature, making the elements his servitors. Miracles do not violate God’s covenant with nature. Maimonides, following rabbinic homilies, finds them embedded in that covenant. Divine agency is clearest today in evolution and its special case, the emergence of autonomy and the rise of consciousness and personhood

Avicenna/ Goodman

xv, 240 hal.; 21 cm

Avicenna/ Goodman

xv, 240 hal.; 21 cm

Religion and the Limits of Liberalism

It begings by noting the challenges which the 'return' of religions to liberal democracies poses to the liberal commitment to respect citizens\u2019 freedom and equality. Then, with particular reference to Rawls' theory of liberal politics, it situates the papers in relation to three different senses of liberal \u2018respect\u2019 that are challenged by contemporary religions \u2013 one understood in terms of the justification of political power, another as tolerance of diversity, and the third in terms of freedom from interference