%0 Book %T Jewish theology for a postmodern age %A Feldmann Kaye, Miriam %S The Littman library of Jewish civilization %D 2019 %I The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, in association with Liverpool University Press %C London %@ 9781906764685 %G English %F 166932298X %O Miriam Feldmann Kaye %O Includes bibliographical references (pages [137]-151) and index %X Note on transliteration. Introduction : Conceptual backdrop: the enigma of postmodernism -- Objectives -- Concepts and terminology -- The focus of this book -- Reading Tamar Ross: two theological principles -- Reading Shagar -- Comparative methodologies. 1 Culture : Cultural particularism -- The deconstruction of universalism -- Multiple truths and the perils of relativism -- Conclusions. 2 Language : The problem of language -- Religious language in a postmodern age -- Shagar: language, semiotics, and theology -- Ross: language and imagination -- Conclusions. 3 Revelation : Torah min hashamayim through a postmodern lens -- Culture and revelation: the role of the community -- Language and revelation: mysticism and deconstructionism -- Imaging and imagining: "visionary theology" for the postmodern age. Conclusion : "Visionary theology" -- The future: Jewish approaches to other religions and interreligious dialogue. Bibliography -- Index. %L 296.301 %K Judaism %K Doctrines %K Philosophy %K Jewish philosophy %K Postmodernism %K Ross, Tamar %K Sh. G. R %K Judaism ; Doctrines %K Judaism ; Philosophy %9 Text