The author presents his philosophy of contemporaryJewish duty. He provides an in-depth examination of the covenant and a way of looking at it in the late twentieth century.

The distinguished contemporary Jewish philosopher, teacher, and editor, Rabbi Eugene B. Borowitz, examines the responses of Jewish thought to the challenge of the modern world. This book celebrates the achievement of the thiinkers who responded to the unprecedented challenge modernity issued to Jewish faith. Large numbers in our community doubt God's existence, are skeptical about the revelation of the Torah, and cannot believe that the Jewish people has a unique role in human history. By studying the ideas of our great modern philosophers, wven when one disagrees with them one is stimulated to think more keenly about one's own Judaism.

A book of ethical wisdom applied to contemporary life

How should religions disagree with one another today? How might they properly engage in dialogue concerning theory central beliefs when these radically contradict concerning the faith of others? In this book for the first time in Jewish-Christian discussions, a Jewish theologian investigates contemporary Christian doctrines of the Christ and responds to them out of his faith in God's continuing covenant with the people of Israel. Under the guidance of Christian colleagues, he responds to a wide range of Christological theory - Catholic and Protestant, liberal, neo-orthodox, evangelical and post-liberal - and probes the meaning of the Christ not only for the salvation of individual Christians but for their ethics and relations to society as well. In this unique perspective, Judaism Christianity both emerge in a new light. By pointing out the often subtle agreement of the faiths exile not flinching from a direct confrontation with matters in dispute, the unique characteristics of each religion are laid bare. And in carrying out this new form of definition by negation, the logic of inter-religious disagreement is worked out.