Traces of God
Subtitle: seeing God in Torah, history and everyday life
By: Neil Gillman
Publisher: Jewish Lights Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Woodstock, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Bible; Judaism; Spiritual life; Biblical teaching; God; Criticism, interpretation; God (Judaism); Theology
Description: The Torah is replete with references to hearing God but precious few references to seeing God. Seeing is complicated. What we look for and see are traces of God's presence in the world and in history, but not God. In order to identify those traces as reflections of divine presence, we need to re-examine how we see, what we see, and how we interpret that information. In this challenging and inspiring look at the dynamics of the religious experience, award-winning author and theologian Neil Gillman guides you into a new way of seeing the complex patterns in the Bible, history, and everyday experiences and helps you interpret what those patterns mean to you and your relationship with God. Examining faith and doubt, revelation and law, suffering and redemption, Gillman candidly deconstructs familiar biblical moments in order to help you develop and refine your own spiritual vision, so that you are able to discern the presence of God in unanticipated ways.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-214) and index.
Table of contents: title: Seeing God; title: Images of God; title: Revelation and law; title: Suffering, death, and redemption.