Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity Essays

Dr. Abraham Joshua Heschel, one of the foremost Jewish savants of our time, was internationally known as scholar, author, activist, and theologian. This first collection of his essays--compiled, edited, and with an introduction by his daughter, Susannah Heschel, Abba Hillel Silver Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland--is arranged in five groups ("Existence and Celebration," "No Time for Neutrality," "Toward a Just Society," "No Religion Is an Island," and "The Holy Dimension"). They include a tribute to Reinhold Niebuhr and a discussion of moral theologian Bernard Häring. An appendix contains a transcript of Carl Stern's famous television interview with Heschel, recorded shortly before his death. --