Symposium on Jewish Belief

Richard L. Rubenstein

1966

I am convinced that the problems implicit in “death of God” theology concern Judaism as much as Christianity. Technically death-of-God theology reflects the Christian tradition of the passion of the Christ. As such, the terminology of the movement creates some very obvious problems for Jewish theologians. Nevertheless, I have, almost against my…

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Richard L. Rubenstein

b. 1924

Although his parents were secular, Richard L. Rubenstein was ordained as a Conservative rabbi in 1952 at the Jewish Theological Seminary and received his doctorate from Harvard Divinity School in 1960. He later became a vital force in post-Holocaust theology. In 1963, Rubenstein was one of nineteen rabbis to visit Birmingham, Alabama, in support of the American civil rights movement. In the following decades, Rubenstein served as a chaplain and a professor at several universities, including Harvard and Florida State University. He was president of the University of Bridgeport between 1995 and 1999.

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