Holy One of Israel

<em>Holy holy holy The Lord of hosts The fill of all the earth is His glory. </em> <p/>In these few ecstatic words the prophet Isaiah captured the core of Jewish thinking about humanity nature and God. If the idea of holiness generally points toward God's transcendence Isaiah brings it back down to earth recognizing God's presence throughout the world. <em>The Holy One of Israel</em> is a philosophical exploration of that remarkable and distinctively Jewish idea: that God is everywhere yet not in space. Lenn Goodman explores what can be meant by God's uniqueness presence and perfection. In a text richly resonant with the classic Jewish sources and in dialogue with the great philosophers Goodman probes the ideas of revelation natural law the problem of evil the challenges and limits of the idea of God's transcendence and God's actions in and through nature including human nature. This book is a must-read for anyone seriously interested in how our ideas about God can inform our lives and our thinking about individual and social responsibility and intellectual and artistic creativity and spiritual growth.<br>