Chapters

• Title Page
• General Introductions (pps.iii-v)
• Appositions (p.vii)
• Foreword (pps.viii-x)
• Table of Contents
• Glossary (pps.xvii-xviii)
• Preface (p.xix)
• Purpose (pps.xix-xxi)
• PART I: Theodicy, Theology, Intellectuality (pps.1-50)
• 10.00 THEODICY/THEOLOGY (pps.3-9)
  • 10.01 Definition (p.3)
  • 10.02 Discussion (pps.3-5)
  • 10.03 Nadir and Refinement (pps.5-7)
  • 10.04 Ramifications (pps.7-8)
  • 10.05 Cohesiveness (pps.8-9)
• 20.00 THEODICY IN FOCUS (pps.9-16)
  • 20.01 Problematics (pps.9-10)
  • 20.02 Holocaust (pps.11-13)
  • 20.03 Observations: The Sliding Scale (pps.13-14)
  • 20.04 Formally Stated (pps.14-15)
  • 20.05 Defining Parameters (pps.15-16)
  • 20.06 Appropriateness (p.16)
• 30.00 THEODICY IN THE JEWISH TRADITION (pps.16-31)
  • 30.01 Outline (pps.16-20)
  • 30.02 Elaboration (pps.20-31)
• 40.00 OTHER THEODICIES (p.31)
  • 40.01 Overview (pps.32-33)
  • 40.02 Irenaean Theodicy (pps.33-36)
• 50.00 GENERAL INTELLECTUAL THRUST OF JUDAISM (pps.36-41)
  • 50.01 Intellectuality (pps.36-39)
  • 50.02 Inquiry (pps.39-40)
  • 50.03 Geometry (pps.40-41)
• 60.00 LEAPS OF FAITH
  (pps.41-44)
• 70.00 RATIONAL MORALITY BETWEEN MAN AND GOD (pps.44-50)
  • 70.01 The Moral Divine (pps.44-45)
  • 70.02 Moral Intelligibility and Absoluteness (pps.45-47)
  • 70.03 “Protest Literature” (pps.48-50)
• PART II: The “Quest for Potential” Unified Formulation (pps.51-149)
• 80.10 APPROACH TO CORE THEODICY RESOLUTION (pps.53-54)
• 80.20 “QUEST FOR POTENTIAL” CORE THEODICY (pps.54-56)
  • 80.21 Outline (p.54)
  • 80.22 Discussion (pps.54-55)
  • 80.23 Need for Unified Formulation (pps.55-56)
• 90.00 ETERNAL ORIGINS (pps.56-60)
  • 90.01 Mainstream (p.56)
  • 90.02 Fault-Line: Gap in Western Philosophical and Scientific Formulations (pps.57-58)
  • 90.03 Partial Exception (p.59)
  • 90.04 Philosphical Terra Incognita (pps.59-60)
• 99.00 THE UNIFIED FORMULATION: OUTLINE SUMMARY (pps.61-64)
• 100.00 THE EPICENTER OF THE DIVINE (pps.64-78)
  • 100.01 The Divine Name (pps.64-65)
  • 100.02 The Primordial Divine (pps.65-67)
  • 100.03 Kabbalistic Parallel (pps.67-69)
  • 100.04 Buttress and Elaboration (pps.69-72)
  • 100.05 Man—and the Quest for Potential (pps.72-73)
  • 100.06 Linkage: Linkage of God’s potential to Man’s Potential (pps.73-74)
  • 100.07 Focus: Potential and the ‘Mitzvot’ (pps.75-78)
• 200.00 THE UNDERLYING DYNAMIC (pps.78-82)
  • 200.01 General Quest for Potential (pps.78-81)
    a Natural Order
    b Mortal
    c Universal
  • 200.02 Spiritual Quests for Potential (pps.81-82)
    a Cosmic
    b Mortal
  • 200.03 Ultimate Quests for Potential (p.82)
    a Cosmic
    b Mortal
• 300.10 DUALITY OF TWO MAJOR DYNAMICS (pps.83-84)
  • 300.11 Inverse and Dualities (p.83)
  • 300.12 Inverses and Polarities (pps.83-84)
• 300.20 TREE OF LIFE/TREE OF KNOWLEDGE
  • 300.21 Components of: (p.84)
  • 300.22 Elaboration on Structure of “Trees” (pps.85-86)
  • 300.23 Shorthand: Symbolism of Eden Parable (pps.86-87)
• 300.30 INEXORABILITY
  (pps.87-90)
• 300.40 UNLEASHED EVIL (p.91)
• 400.10 EVIL AND POLARITY (pps.91-94)
  • 400.11 Introductory (pps.92-93)
  • 400.12 Evil and the Jews (p.93)
  • 400.13 Source and Existence of Evil (p.94)
• 400.20 EVIL AND NECESSITY (pps.94-96)
• 400.30 THE REMOVAL OF EVIL (p.96)
• 400.40 UNIVERSAL LAWS (p.97)
• 500.10 FINITE + (pps.98-99)
• 500.20 PURPOSE (pps.100-103)
• 500.30 MAN’S ASCENT/CREATION
  (pps.103-104)
• 500.40 COMMON QUESTS (p.104)
• 600.00 MAN’S FREEDOM (p.104)
  • 600.01 Centrality of Concept in Judaism (pps.105-106)
  • 600.02 Definition of Man’s Freedom (pps.106-107)
  • 600.03 Qualifications and Limitations— Within Freedom (pps.108-109)
• 700.10 NECESSITY AND FREEDOM (p.109)
• 700.20 FULLER FREEDOM (pps.110-111)
• 800.10 MAN’S ASCENT / KNOWLEDGE (pps.111-112)
• 800.20 KNOWLEDGE AND FREEDOM (pps.112-114)
• 800.30 PRIVACY, RESPONSIBILITY, AND SHELFHOOD (pps.114-115)
  • 800.31 Freedom and Privacy (pps.115-116)
  • 800.32 Privacy and Potential (pps.116-117)
  • 800.33 Freedom and Responsibility/Selfhood (p.117)
• 900.10 CONTRACTION OF DIVINE CONSCIOUSNESS (pps.117-118)
  • 900.11 Building Blocks (pps.118-124)
    • 900.11a Freedom and Divine Consciousness (p.118)
    • 900.11b Conceptualization (pps.118-119)
    • 900.11c Multiple levels of the Divine (pps.119-121)
    • 900.11d Uniqueness of Divine Knowledge (pps.121-122)
    • 900.11e Pivot of Our Formulation (pps.122-123)
    • 900.11f Parallel of God: Israel to Father: Child (pps.123-124)
  • 900.12 Grounding (pps.124-134)
    • 900.12a Hester Panim (pps.124-126)
    • 900.12b Divine Self-Limitation (pps.126-127)
    • 900.12c Divine Contractions and Tsimtsum (pps.127-129)
    • 900.12d Integration of Divine Hester; Self-limitation; Contraction (pps.129-131)
    • 900.12e Two overlapping Paths to Hester (pps.131-132)
    • 900.12f Clarification of Biblical Hester (pps.132-134)
  • 900.13 Dynamics of Conflict Resolution (pps.134-138)
    • 900.13a Conflict: Divine Presence / Man’s Freedom (pps.134-135)
    • 900.13b Conflict: Divine Knowledge / Man’s Freedom (p.135)
    • 900.13c Divine Foreknowledge (pps.136-138)
  • 900.14 Summation (of Section 900.10) (pps.138-141)
    • 900.14a Divine Attributes (pps.138-139)
    • 900.14b Proportionality (pps.139-140)
    • 900.14c Dichotomy (pps.140-141)
• 900.20 INCREASE IN EVIL (p.141)
  • 900.20a Omnipotence and Omnimercifulness (pps.141-142)
  • 900.20b Evil and Hester (pps.142-143)
  • 900.20c Divine Intervention and Man’s Freedom (pps.143-144)
  • 900.20d Knowledge and Evil (pps.144-146)
  • 900.20e General Providence (p.146)
  • 900.20f The Holocaust (pps.146-147)
• 900.30 INVIOLABILITY
  (pps.147-149)
• PART III: Summation and Reprise (pps.153-167)
• 1010.00 UNIFIED FORMULATION: GENERAL BUTTRESS
  (pps.153-155)
• 1020.00 PERSON TO PERSON (pps.155-158)
• 1030.00 OBSCURITY / AMBIGUITY OF GOD, ETC. (pps.158-159)
• 1040.00 MAN IS NOT ALONE, BUT ESSENTIALLY ON HIS OWN (pps.159-160)
• 1050.00 MAN OF HALACHAH AND THE UNIFIED FORMULATION (pps.160-163)
• 1060.00 UNIFIED FORMULATION: WRAP-UP (pps.163-165)
• 1070.00 REPRISE (pps.165-167)
• APPENDIX (p.169)
  • BAL TOSIF AND THEOLOGICAL DOGMA (pps.169-171)
  • BIFURCATION:
    SUBJECTIVE VS. OBJECTIVE KEYS TO THE BOOK OF JOB
    (pages 172-176)
• PRAYER (pps.176-183)
• SNAPSHOT BIOGRAPHIES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• BIBLICAL INDEX
• GENERAL INDEX
• To Order
• Information