About this religious work
The Prophets, Vol 1 by Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 1907-1972 is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
According to the popular definition, a prophet is one who accurately predicts the future. But in the Jewish tradition, as Abraham Joshua Heschel explains in The Prophets , these figures earn their title by witnessing the world around them with outstanding passion. Prophets are those whose "life & soul are at stake" in what they say about "the mystery of [god's] relation to man." They are "some of the most disturbing people who have ever lived," & yet they are also "the men whose image is our refuge in distress, & whose voice & vision sustain our faith." Heschel's book, one of the classic texts on the subject, contains sophisticated, straightforward discussions of each of the Hebrew prophets, the primary themes of their preaching, & comparisons of Israel's prophets to those of other religions'. Heschel avoids the two great temptations in any discussion of prophesy: overstating the supernatural quality of a prophet's epiphany ("A prophet is a person, not a microphone") & reducing prophesy to a merely human phenomenon. Instead, he describes the prophet's peculiar status as god's spokesman in a way that does justice to its complexity: "He speaks from the perspective of god as perceive
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 1907-1972
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 1975
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780061315572
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Christian, Philosophy, Judaism