The Radical American Judaism Of Mordecai M Kaplan

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Mordecai M. Kaplan, founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement, is the only rabbi to have been excommunicated by the Orthodox rabbinical establishment in America. Kaplan was indeed a heretic, rejecting such fundamental Jewish beliefs as the concept of the chosen people and a supernatural God. Although he valued the Jewish community and was a committed Zionist, his primary concern was the spiritual fulfillment of the individual. Drawing on Kaplan's 27-volume diary, Mel Scult describes the development of Kaplan's radical theology in dialogue with the thinkers and writers who mattered to.

subjects: Rekonstruktionismus,  Reconstructionist Judaism,  Jüdische Philosophie,  Theologie,  Philosophie,  Judentum,  Jüdische Theologie,  Kaplan, mordecai menahem, 1881-1983,  RELIGION,  Judaism,  General,  Reform