The Holy One of Israel

Lenn E. Goodman is the author of several works on Jewish philosophy, including Judaism, Human Rights, and Human Values, On Justice: An Essay in Jewish Philosophy, and Judaism: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation. He is Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University.

• Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1 - Holiness in its Constellation Chapter 2 - The Presence of the Holy Chapter 3 - Who is Like God? Chapter 4 - To Make a Rainbow Chapter 5 - God and Evil Chapter 6 - What is Positive in Negative Theology? Chapter 7 - Natural Law Chapter 8 - Revelation Bibliography Notes Index

The Holy One of Israel is Goodman's most compelling statement yes of his thesis that God and the Good are coextensive. God is the source of goodness we experience as recipients of the gift of being and of life and mind far beyond our prior deserts. And God is the standard whose goodness we are called to emulate and whose presence and sovereignty in the world we are called to strengthen. In its scope, ambition, and intellectual heft, dexterity, and vision, this work is nothing less than a twenty-first century Guide for the Perplexed. Jewish philosophy will never be the same.