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GENERAL INTRODUCTION

Appositions
Foreword
Table of Contents
Glossary
Preface
Purpose

10.00 THEODICY/THEOLOGY

10.01 Definition
10.02 Discussion
10.03 Nadir and Refinement
10.04 Ramifications
10.05 Cohesiveness

20.00 THEODICY IN FOCUS

20.01 Problematics
20.02 Holocaust
20.03 Observations: The Sliding Scale
20.04 Formally Stated
20.05 Defining Parameters
20.06 Appropriateness

30.00 THEODICY IN THE JEWISH TRADITION

30.01 Outline
30.02 Elaboration

40.00 OTHER THEODICIES

40.01 Overview
40.02 Irenaean Theodicy

50.00 GENERAL INTELLECTUAL THRUST OF JUDAISM

50.01 Intellectuality
50.02 Inquiry
50.03 Geometry

60.00 LEAPS OF FAITH

70.00 RATIONAL MORALITY BETWEEN MAN AND GOD

70.01 The Moral Divine
70.02 Moral Intelligibility and Absoluteness
70.03 “Protest Literature”

80.10 APPROACH TO CORE THEODICY RESOLUTION

80.20 “QUEST FOR POTENTIAL” CORE THEODICY

80.21 Outline
80.22 Discussion
80.23 Need for Unified Formulation

90.00 ETERNAL ORIGINS

90.01 Mainstream
90.02 Fault-Line: Gap in Western Philosophical
and Scientific Formulations
90.03 Partial Exception
90.04 Philosophical Terra Incognita

99.00 THE UNIFIED FORMULATION: OUTLINE SUMMARY

100.00 THE EPICENTER OF THE DIVINE

100.01 The Divine Name
100.02 The Primordial Divine
100.03 Kabbalistic Parallel
100.04 Buttress and Elaboration
100.05 Man-and the Quest for Potential
100.06 Linkage: Linkage of God’s Potential
to Man’s Potential
100.07 Focus: Potential and the Mitzvot

200.00 THE UNDERLYING DYNAMIC

200.01 General Quest for Potential

200.01a Natural Order
200.01b Mortal
200.01c Universal

200.02 Spiritual Quests for Potential

200.02a Cosmic
200.02b Mortal

200.03 Ultimate Quests for Potential

200.03a Cosmic
200.03b Mortal

300.10 DUALITY OF TWO MAJOR DYNAMICS

300.11 Inverse and Dualities
300.12 Inverses and Polarities

300.20 TREE OF LIFE/TREE OF KNOWLEDGE

300.21 Components of
300.22 Elaboration on Structure of “Trees”
300.23 Shorthand: Symbolism of Eden Parable

300.30 INEXORABILITY

300.40 UNLEASHED EVIL

400.10 EVIL AND POLARITY

400.11 Introductory
400.12 Evil and the Jews
400.13 Source and Existence of Evil

400.20 EVIL AND NECESSITY

400.30 THE REMOVAL OF EVIL

400.40 UNIVERSAL LAWS

500.10 FINITE +

500.20 PURPOSE

500.30 MAN’S ASCENT/CREATION

500.40 COMMON QUESTS

600.00 MAN’S FREEDOM

600.01 Centrality of Concept in Judaism
600.02 Definition of Man’s Freedom
600.03 Qualifications and Limitations-Within Freedom

700.10 NECESSITY AND FREEDOM

700.20 FULLER FREEDOM

800.10 MAN’S ASCENT/KNOWLEDGE

800.20 KNOWLEDGE AND FREEDOM

800.30 PRIVACY, RESPONSIBILITY AND SELFHOOD

800.31 Freedom and Privacy
800.32 Privacy and Potential
800.33 Freedom and Responsibility/Selfhood

900.10 CONTRACTION OF DIVINE CONSCIOUSNESS

900.11 Building Blocks

900.11a Freedom and Divine Consciousness
900.11b Conceptualization
900.11c Multiple Levels of the Divine
900.11d Uniqueness of Divine Knowledge
900.11e Pivot of Our Formulation
900.11f Parallel of God: Israel to Father: Child

900.12 Grounding

900.12a Hester Panim
900.12b Divine Self-Limitation
900.12c Divine Contraction and Tsimtsum.
900.12d Integration of Divine Hester;
Self-Limitation; Contraction
900.12e Two Overlapping Paths to Hester
900.12f Clarification of Biblical Hester

900.13 Dynamics of Conflict Resolution

900.13a Conflict: Divine Presence/Man’s Freedom
900.13b Conflict: Divine Knowledge/Man’s Freedom
900.13c Divine Foreknowledge

900.14 Summation (of Section 900.10)

900.14a Divine Attributes
900.14b Proportionality
900.14c Dichotomy

900.20 INCREASE IN EVIL

900.20a Omnipotence and Omnimercifulness
900.20b Evil and Hester
900.20c Divine Intervention and Man’s Freedom
900.20d Knowledge and Evil
900.20e General Providence
900.20f The Holocaust

900.30 INVIOLABILITY

1010.00 UNIFIED FORMULATION: GENERAL BUTTRESS

1020.00 PERSON TO PERSON

1030.00 OBSCURITY/AMBIGUITY OF GOD, ETC.

1040.00 MAN IS NOT ALONE, BUT IS ESSENTIALLY ON HIS OWN

1050.00 MAN OF HALACHAH AND THE UNIFIED FORMULATION

1060.00 UNIFIED FORMULATION: WRAP-UP

1070.00 REPRISE

APPENDIX

BAL TOSIF AND THEOLOGICAL DOGMA

BIFURCATION:
SUBJECTIVE VS. OBJECTIVE KEYS TO THE BOOK OF JOB

PRAYER

NOTES

SNAPSHOT BIOGRAPHIES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

BIBLICAL INDEX

GENERAL INDEX

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