Beit Midrash Emet: Is There a Conflict Between Modernity and Judaism?
Is there a conflict between modernity and religion? Are science and religiosity fundamentally incompatible with each other? Does Judaism approach these questions differently than Christianity? In this four part course in our Beit Midrash (house of study / library) will explore a Jewish approach to resolving this conflict. (all sessions will be at 7pm in the library, immediately following the 6pm “The Story of Us”)
–11/18–Modernity and Ideas of Scripture (why is Torah important if historians say it is written by humans?)
–12/2–God and Religion (we will flip the normal discourse on its head and posit that it’s not modernity and God that are in conflict with each other, but instead God and religion)
–12/9–Science and Religion (evolution, global warming, and conflicts between tradition and science)
–1/6/15–Ethics and Religious Morality (when religious morality tells us one thing, and our own sense of right and wrong tells us another)
Modernity and Judaism: a Conflict?
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