Finally! This post was postponed as I waited on a particular library title - "As A Driven Leaf" by Milton Steinberg, with forward by Chaim Potok.
Skimming the forward and the prologue, I can't wait to read it!
Steinberg, "a Conservative Rabbi in New York, wrote (in 1939) this fictionalized account of an early Talmudic sage in ancient Jerusalem, around 132 C.E. (aka Common Era, or A.D.). However, most scholars, including Potok, believe this drama - a conflict between religious and pagan ideas, between faith and reason, between postulates of creed and science - believe this to be the story of Steinberg himself... and his hero was a heretic." [sic]
Theology, its evolution, history, and its impact on its followers are simply magnetic to me.
Why believe what we do?
Why believe anything at all?
Why worry about it all so much?
Take Dan Brown's titles, The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons, and their current popularity. It's obvious we have a fascination and inquisitive bent toward the layers which comprise those cakes of religions and the tart flavours of politics within - enough so that feature films are created on the theme.
I digress from my guests, tho. These vivacious people (left to right) Penny, Mike, Debbie and Steve, all medical professionals, stayed overnight after a Broughton Archipeligo kayak trip. Delightful, energetic, and very interested in the titles within the HBH library, they inspected a tome or two and the conversation turned to the above mentioned title, as Steve was currently reading it.
I was smitten and immediately ordered it from the local public library.
The foursome were simply delightful in their enthusiasm toward life, and all things to challenge. Quite a competitive bunch, I'd say, from the avid and active breakfast conversations! (Paddle harder, Mike!)
I was very glad to have had you all at the house, with such energy and smiles to spare.
Thanks for choosing HBH; I hope you'll return sometime!
Sandra
Skimming the forward and the prologue, I can't wait to read it!
Steinberg, "a Conservative Rabbi in New York, wrote (in 1939) this fictionalized account of an early Talmudic sage in ancient Jerusalem, around 132 C.E. (aka Common Era, or A.D.). However, most scholars, including Potok, believe this drama - a conflict between religious and pagan ideas, between faith and reason, between postulates of creed and science - believe this to be the story of Steinberg himself... and his hero was a heretic." [sic]
Theology, its evolution, history, and its impact on its followers are simply magnetic to me.
Why believe what we do?
Why believe anything at all?
Why worry about it all so much?
Take Dan Brown's titles, The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons, and their current popularity. It's obvious we have a fascination and inquisitive bent toward the layers which comprise those cakes of religions and the tart flavours of politics within - enough so that feature films are created on the theme.
I digress from my guests, tho. These vivacious people (left to right) Penny, Mike, Debbie and Steve, all medical professionals, stayed overnight after a Broughton Archipeligo kayak trip. Delightful, energetic, and very interested in the titles within the HBH library, they inspected a tome or two and the conversation turned to the above mentioned title, as Steve was currently reading it.
I was smitten and immediately ordered it from the local public library.
The foursome were simply delightful in their enthusiasm toward life, and all things to challenge. Quite a competitive bunch, I'd say, from the avid and active breakfast conversations! (Paddle harder, Mike!)
I was very glad to have had you all at the house, with such energy and smiles to spare.
Thanks for choosing HBH; I hope you'll return sometime!
Sandra
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