Searching for a distant God : the legacy of Maimonides / Kenneth Seeskin.

  • Seeskin, Kenneth, 1947-
Date:
2000
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Physical description

xii, 252 pages ; 24 cm

Contributors

Contents

The urge to philosophize -- The challenge of monotheism -- Speaking of and to God -- The problem of creation -- Imitatio Dei -- Monotheism and freedom -- Popular religion and a personal God -- Appendix: esotericism and the limits of knowledge: a critique of Strauss.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-241) and indexes.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    ZFH /SEE
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ISBN

  • 019512846X