By Neil Gillman

The trendy Jew, residing in a global of shattered ideals and competing ideologies, is usually faced with questions of religion. Sacred Fragments is in the event you nonetheless care sufficient to proceed the fight. In forthright, nontechnical language the writer addresses the main tricky theological questions of our time and indicates that there are nonetheless conceivable Jewish solutions for even the best skeptics.

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In fact, could we not claim that it is the very incompatibility of a religious doctrine with reason that is the best guarantor of its divine origins? We are back, then, to our original impasse. We have linked that broad issue to a more narrow one, the authenticity of a religion’s core revelatory event. Is that linkage legitimate? ”We dis­ miss the ravings of a disheveled man on a street corner who is predicting the imminent end of the world. We are horrified by  What Really Happened? the mass suicide of a religious cult in South America in response to the private vision of the cult’s founder.

This is a God who changes His mind, who wills destruction and then saves, who wills security and then destroys. He is personally involved in the events of history. He desires certain historical outcomes. But because He created human beings free—nothing in His crea­ tion matches that for surprise—His plans for history are always tentative and conditional. Yet there is never the slightest ques­ tion of God’s own freedom or of His power. The source of His frustration is His reluctance to use either of these because of commitments that He Himself has entered into.

To return to our original question: Is revelation, then, in principle possible? That depends on our image of God. But cer­ tainly, if we accept the biblical image of God, revelation is not only possible but actually demanded. Events, Not Processes The leap from affirming the principle of revelation to affirming the authenticity of a specific revelatory event raises a host of new questions. How do we reconcile our image of God as beyond time with the biblical notion of a God who reveals Himself at specific moments in history?

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Sacred Fragments - Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew by Neil Gillman
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