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Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Background and Introduction

I. Review of Literature

Introduction

II. General Background

Why Is There a Tension between Philosophy and Revelatory Theology?

The Tension between Philosophy and Revelatory Theology in Modern Western Thought

Strauss and Fackenheim on the Tension between Philosophy and Revelatory Theology in Modern Western Thought

The Tension between Philosophy and Revelation in Jewish Philosophy

The Dead End of Resolving Tension

Strauss and Fackenheim: Two Options to Restore Reason and Revelation

III. Development of Argument in Chapter Form

Overview of Book in Chapter Form

Strauss and Fackenheim: A Note on Methodology

2 Strauss’s Formulation of the Relationship between Reason and Revelation in Modern Thought and His Rejection of a Practical Synthesis

I. Strauss on Western Philosophy

Introduction

Strauss on the Ancient Philosophers

Strauss on Machiavelli

Strauss on Hobbes

Strauss on Heidegger

II. Strauss on Jewish Philosophy

Strauss on the Bible

Strauss on Spinoza

Strauss on Cohen

Strauss on Rosenzweig

Conclusion

3 Fackenheim’s Formulation of the Relationship between Philosophy and Revelatory Theology in Modern Thought

I. Fackenheim on Western Philosophy

Introduction

Fackenheim on Kant

Fackenheim on Hegel

Fackenheim on Schelling

Fackenheim on Heidegger

II. Fackenheim on Jewish Philosophy

Fackenheim on the Bible

Fackenheim on Spinoza

Fackenheim on Rosenzweig

Fackenheim on Buber

III. Fackenheim’s Synthesis

Fackenheim’s Synthesis of Revelatory Religion and Philosophy

4 The Problem of Historicism

Introduction

The Necessity of ‘Openness’ in Philosophic and/or Religious Thought

The Problem of Historicism: Strauss’s Return to Natural Right

The Problem of Historicism: Fackenheim the Philosopher’s Return to History

The Problem of Historicism: Fackenheim the Theologian’s Return to History

Conclusion

5 Reason and Revelation: Jewish Thought after Strauss and Fackenheim

Introduction

Strauss: Jerusalem and Athens

Fackenheim’s Rejection of the Return to Greek Thought

Results from Beginning with Fackenheim’s Position

The Present Writer’s Position

Notes

Bibliography

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