How to do good and avoid evil
Subtitle: a global ethic from the sources of Judaism
By: Hans Küng,  Walter Homolka ; translated by John Bowden.
Contributors: Homolka, Walter.
Publisher: SkyLight Paths Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Woodstock, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781594732553
Subjects: Good and evil -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Good and evil -- Religious aspects; Jewish ethics; Justice (Jewish theology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Walter Homolka; title: Judaism and a global ethic / Hans Küng; title: Judaism's universal gift : an ethic for humankind / Walter Homolka; title: Core ethic 1: the value of the human : every human being must be treated humanely; title: Sacred image of man / Abraham J. Heschel; title: Core ethic 2: the golden rule : do not do to another what you would not want to be done to you; title: Love of neighbor / Samson Hochfeld; title: Core ethic 3: peace : commitment to a culture of nonviolence and reverence for all life; title: The tent of peace / Hermann Cohen; title: Core ethic 4: justice : commitment to a culture of justice and a just economic order; title: Public prosperity / Salomo Samue; title: Core ethic 5: truth and tolerance : commitment to a culture of tolerance and a life in truthfulness; title: Truthfulness / Leo Baeck; title: Core ethic 6: equal rights : commitment to a culture of equal rights and a partnership between men and women; title: Standing again at Sinai / Judith Plaskow; title: Afterword: A vision of hope : religious peace and a global ethic / Hans Küng.