The Challenge of Modern Jewish Theology: Continuities, Dissonances, and Possibilities
Tuesday, November 8, 2022 12:20pm to 1:20pm
Tuesday, November 8, 2022 12:20pm to 1:20pm
About this Event
Dr. Kessler’s talk will discuss his co-edited anthology, Modern Jewish Theology: The First Hundred Years, 1835-1935 (JPS/Nebraska, forthcoming). His talk will focus on the challenges of the volume’s genre itself – Jewish theology: its history, development, and definitional complications. How have Jews practiced theology? How is Jewish theology distinct from religious philosophy? In what ways has modernity raised unique questions for theology generally, and for Jewish theology specifically? The talk will explore how leading nineteenth-century Jewish thinkers sought to identify particular aspects of the Jewish theological tradition, and then adapt them to the modern age of science and historical criticism.
Dr. Samuel J. Kessler is an Assistant Professor of Religion and Åke and Kristina Bonnier Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota. His work focuses on the interaction of religion and modernity in European history and literature. He has written on topics in Jewish history, the history of science, postmodern theory, the Holocaust, and American literature.
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