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CONTENTS

PREFACE

SELECTORS

1 JACOB B. AGUS—AN INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW

SELECTIONS

2 THE IDEAL PERSONALITY

3 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES

4 NEO-MAIMONISM

PART ONE JACOB B. AGUS AS A STUDENT OF MODERN JEWISH PHILOSOPHY

SELECTIONS AND PREFATORY REMARKS

5 THE COMMON CORE OF MODERN JEWISH PHILOSOPHY

6 THE NEARNESS OF GOD

7 RAV KUK, AN APPRECIATION

PART TWO JACOB B. AGUS AS A STUDENT OF MEDIEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHY AND MYSTICISM

SELECTIONS AND PREFATORY REMARKS

8 THE RISE OF JEWISH RATIONALISM

9 THE QABBALAH

PART THREE JACOB B. AGUS AND JEWISH-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE: A VIEW FROM THE CHRISTIAN SIDE

SELECTIONS AND PREFATORY REMARKS

10 JUDAISM AND THE NEW TESTAMENT

11 PERSPECTIVES FOR THE STUDY OF THE BOOK OF ACTS

12 A NEW KIND OF CHRISTIAN-JEWISH DISPUTATION

PART FOUR JACOB AGUS' IDEOLOGY OF AMERICAN JUDAISM: AMERICAN JEWS OR JEWISH AMERICANS?

SELECTIONS AND PREFATORY REMARKS

13 WHO WE ARE

14 ASSIMILATION, INTEGRATION, SEGREGATION: THE ROAD TO THE FUTURE

15 JEWISH SELF-IMAGE IN THE POSTWAR WORLD

PART FIVE THE CONCEPT OF GOD IN JACOB AGUS' THEOLOGY

SELECTION AND PREFATORY REMARKS

16 THE IDEA OF GOD

PART SIX JACOB B. AGUS ON THE MEANING OF JEWISH HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE

SELECTIONS AND PREFATORY REMARKS

17 EPILOGUE TO THE EVOLUTION OF JEWISH THOUGHT

18 THE CONCEPT OF ISRAEL

PART SEVEN JACOB B. AGUS AND THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT

SELECTIONS AND PREFATORY REMARKS

19 REEVALUATION OF THE "RESPONSUM ON THE SABBATH"

20 BIRTH CONTROL: A DISSENT

21 LAW IN CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM

22 A THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION FOR THE HALACHAH

PART EIGHT JEWISH LAW AS STANDARDS

SELECTION AND PREFATORY REMARKS

23 THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT

PART NINE JACOB B. AGUS AS PULPIT RABBI

SELECTIONS AND PREFATORY REMARKS

24 RELIGION AND NATIONALISM

25 THE COVENANT CONCEPT—PARTICULARISTIC, PLURALISTIC, OR FUTURISTIC?

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF JACOB B. AGUS