Healthy Doubt: A Jewish Approach to Paradox
Confronting an irresolvable paradox need not be an obstacle in our relationship with G-d.
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Zohar Atkins studies Theology at Balliol College, Oxford. He is writing his dissertation on the German philosopher Martin Heidegger and the German-Jewish thinker Franz Rosenzweig and is a Rhodes Scholar with B.A, from Brown University in Classics and Judaic Studies and an M.A. in History.
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Though not perhaps originally intended as an argument for diversity of viewpoint, Zophar Atkins' lecture provides an example of its benefits. He draws from a variety of sources ancient to modern, pagan, Christian, and Jewish that shed a variety of lights on his topic. Such an example is badly needed in this time of polarization and all too frequent exclusion of differing viewpoints.
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