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To Heal a Fractured World The Ethics of Responsibility

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ISBN-10: 0805211969

ISBN-13: 9780805211962

Edition: N/A

Authors: Jonathan Sacks

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One of the most respected religious thinkers of our time makes an impassioned plea for the return of religion to its true purpose-- as a partnership with God in the work of ethical and moral living. What are our duties to others, to society, and to humanity? How do we live a meaningful life in an age of global uncertainty and instability? In To Heal a Fractured World, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks offers answers to these questions by looking at the ethics of responsibility. In his signature plainspoken, accessible style, Rabbi Sacks shares with us traditional interpretations of the Bible, Jewish law, and theology, as well as the works of philosophers and ethicists from other cultures, to examine…    
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Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.17" wide x 7.99" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Rabbi Lord Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the UK & Commonwealth, is admired by non-Jews as well as Jews, by secular as well as religious thinkers, and is equally at home in the university and the yeshiva. Lord Sacks read Philosophy at Cambridge before pursuing postgraduate studies at New College, Oxford and King's College, London.The Chief Rabbi is a highly respected writer and broadcaster, with a regular column in The Times and frequent appearances on Radio 4's Thought for the Day. He is the author of twenty books, including The Great Partnership, The Dignity of Difference and Future Tense.

Acknowledgements
The Call to Responsibility
The Ethics of Responsibility
Faith as Protest
Charity as Justice
Love as Deed
Sanctifying the Name
Mending the World
Like a Single Soul
The Kindness of Strangers
Responsibility for Society
The Theology of Responsibility
The Birth of Responsibility
Divine Initiative, Human Initiative
The Holy and the Good
The Monotheistic Imagination
The Faith of God
Redeeming Evil
The Responsible Life
Transforming Suffering
The Chaos Theory of Virtue
The Kind of Person We Are
Who Am I?
On Dreams and Responsibilities
Index