Abraham Joshua Heschel 1907 – 1972
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907 – 1972) was a Polish-American philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Jewish Philosophy and Continental Philosophy.
Abraham Joshua Heschel was a Polish-born American Jewish philosopher, theologian, and rabbi, the descendant of a long line of Hasidic masters, professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, and one of the leading religious voices of the twentieth-century American civil rights movement. His God in Search of Man and Man Is Not Alone defended a phenomenology of religious experience in which the awareness of the radically transcendent precedes any theology, while The Prophets reread the prophetic literature of the Hebrew Bible as the model for moral and political imagination in the modern world. He marched at Selma with Martin Luther King Jr. and described the experience as praying with his legs.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Polish-American
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Jewish Philosophy, Continental Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Abraham Joshua Heschel:
“I felt my legs were praying.”
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Attributed to Abraham Joshua Heschel:
“The opposite of good is not evil; it is indifference.”
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“Awe precedes faith; it is the root of faith.”
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“In a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.”
The Religious Basis of Equality of Opportunity—The Segregation of God" (1963) in Race: Challenge to Religion (1963) Edited by Mathew Ahmann. -
“Just to be is a blessing; just to live is holy.”
No Religion is an Island", p. 264
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- When did Abraham Joshua Heschel live?
- Abraham Joshua Heschel was born in 1907 and died in 1972.
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- Abraham Joshua Heschel was a Polish-American philosopher of the Contemporary era.
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- Abraham Joshua Heschel was associated with Jewish Philosophy and Continental Philosophy.
- What was Abraham Joshua Heschel known for?
- Abraham Joshua Heschel was a Polish-born American Jewish philosopher, theologian, and rabbi, the descendant of a long line of Hasidic masters, professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, and one of the leading religious voices of the twentieth-century American civil rights movement.
- How many quotes are attributed to Abraham Joshua Heschel?
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