Richard L. Rubenstein
Richard Lowell Rubenstein ( born January 8, 1924 in New York City ) is an American rabbi, professor and author.
Life
Rubenstein studied Judaism at Hebrew Union College, a rabbinical seminary of Reform Judaism in New York City. 1952 Rubenstein was ordained as a rabbi. From 1958 he was director of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation and from 1958 to 1970 as a chaplain for the students at the University of Pittsburgh, at Carnegie- Mellon University and Duquesne University operates. From 1970 to 1995 he taught as a professor at Florida State University, Religious Studies. From 1995 to 1999, Rubenstein president of the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, which is mainly supported since 1995 by the Unification Church economical. Although president of this university, Rubenstein was never a member of the Unification Church.
As an author, Rubenstein has written several books and an autobiography. Rubenstein's original work after Auschwitz postulated that only honest intellectual response to the Holocaust was the rejection of a God who acts in history. This means the end of the Jewish faith in election. Accordingly, the Jewish existence is not a punitive existence, in which the fate of the Jews was to be regarded as God's punishment. Exile is not only a historical- geographical shape of Jewish exile, but a universally human and cosmic reality. This man needs to create the meaning of life itself. This view of God - is - dead theology was in the United States, a common reading in the Jewish communities of the 1970s and led to media discussions with Protestant theologians such as Gabriel Vahanian, Paul van Buren, William Hamilton and Thomas Jonathan Jackson Altizer.
The positive charge of his god image Rubenstein draws on Jewish mysticism. God is for him, " en- sof " = "holy no- thing ness" (non- Around slope) as the source and the mouth of all being. In his book, My Brother Paul from 1972, it provides a psychoanalytic study of Paul of Tarsus. Over the past year, Rubenstein was especially intrigued with the dangers of extremist Islam.