Sunday, December 19, 2010
Real clear
C.S. Lewis: More than 40 years after his death, the former medieval literature professor has become the Elvis Presley of Christian publishing...
...there is such a thing as Jewish secularism, and one key element in it is the abandonment of halakhah (traditional Jewish law) and rabbinic authority. This is a point of radical division between Maimonides, who saw himself as renovating and ultimately strengthening Jewish law, and Spinoza, who deliberately aimed to dissolve it.
Sorry, Atheism Can't Replace Religion!
...there is such a thing as Jewish secularism, and one key element in it is the abandonment of halakhah (traditional Jewish law) and rabbinic authority. This is a point of radical division between Maimonides, who saw himself as renovating and ultimately strengthening Jewish law, and Spinoza, who deliberately aimed to dissolve it.
Sorry, Atheism Can't Replace Religion!
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