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The beginning of wisdom.
AND FROM THESE YOU SHALL SEEK
by JOSEPH SOLOVEITCHIK Ktav, 230 pages, $29.50 NEAR THE END of Courage to Be, Paul Tillich writes: "God as a subject makes me into an object which is nothing more than an object. He deprives me of my subjectivity because he is all-powerful and all-knowing. I revolt and try to make him into an object, but the revolt fails and becomes desperate. God appears as the invincible tyrant, the being in contrast with whom all other beings are without freedom and subjectivity.... This is the deepest root of atheism." In the next decade theologians influenced by him proclaimed the reality of Good Friday--without an ...See the full content of this document
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