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The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook Advance Access originally published online on August 13, 2009
The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 2009 54(1):127-147; doi:10.1093/lbaeck/ybp007
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Towards what Kind of Unity? David Koigen, Leo Baeck and the Monism-Theism-Debate

Martina Urban

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"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?" With this maxim, R. Hillel the Elder succinctly expressed the religious meaning of community in Judaism: the individual and the community are existentially interrelated. A self-enclosed existence violates the spirit of biblical religion. In this manner, the concept of unity emerged as a core theological principle of monotheism; arguably, it merits consideration as a critical term within religious studies in general. In any event, when freed from conventional rhetoric and communitarian idealisation, the concept clearly has cross-cultural applicability.

How to (re-)think the concept of unity is thus a problem now commanding some attention in cultural studies, with the proposed shift of perspective being towards "a way of thinking based on integration and differentiation".1 In distinction to reductionist positions yielding either unity without diversity or difference . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   RETHINKING RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY
 

   DAVID KOIGEN: A "RECONCILIATORY UNITY"
 

   LEO BAECK: A UNITY "THAT LIVES IN ITS OPPOSITE"
 

   TOWARDS WHAT KIND OF UNITY?
 

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