The Refutation of the Christian Principles

Hasdai Crescas (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

156 Seiten

1992
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-0966-4 (ISBN)

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During the fourteenth century, there was a general demoralization in the Jewish community in Spain. Many Jews were on the brink of conversion. Rabbi Crescas met the Christian challenge by writing this pithy book refuting the principles of the Christian religion. He argued that the basic Christian doctrines, namely, original sin, salvation, trinity, incarnation, virgin birth, transubstantiation, baptism, the messiah, a new covenant, and demons, contradict human reason, thereby calling into question Christianity's claim to be a true religion. The Refutation is an important document of the medieval Jewish-Christian debate and is also especially important for the history of Jewish philosophy in general.

Daniel J. Lasker is Associate Professor of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel. He is the author of Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages.

Acknowledgments
Foreword to the English Translation THE REFUTATION OF THE CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES

Joseph Ben Shem Tov's Introduction
Hasdai Crescas' Preface
1. Concerning the Punishment of Adam's Sin
2. Concerning the Redemption from Adam's Original Sin Called in Their Language "Original"
3. Concerning the Trinity
4. Concerning Incarnation
5. Concerning Virgin Birth
6. Concerning Transubstantiation
7. Concerning Baptism
8. Concerning the Coming of the Messiah
9. Concerning the New Torah
10. Concerning Demons

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.7.1992
Reihe/Serie	SUNY series in Jewish Philosophy
Übersetzer	Daniel J. Lasker
Zusatzinfo	Total Illustrations: 0
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	236 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
ISBN-10	0-7914-0966-X / 079140966X
ISBN-13	978-0-7914-0966-4 / 9780791409664
Zustand	Neuware