Title: Passionate centrism : one rabbi's Judaism /
Authors: Fine, David J. 1973-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Rabbis United States.; Conservative Judaism.; Judaism
Abstract: Passionate centrism is an important discussion of Positive Historical Judaism and the benefit of holding the center of Judaism -- that is, the Conservative Movement. This book is an important resource for clergy and other congregational leaders and is an excellent product for lecture series.
Contents: Principles of positive historical Judaism -- Liturgy: addressing the sacred -- Halakhah: living the sacred -- Sacred text -- Sacred history -- Finding God in history -- Appendix 1. Women and the minyan (2002) -- Appendix 2. The halakhah of same-sex relations in a new context -- Appendix 3. Solomon Schechter and the ambivalence of Jewish Wissenschaft (1997) -- Appendix 4. The meaning of Catholic Israel (1998).