Background
Goodman, Lenn Evan was born on March 21, 1944 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Calvin Jerome and Florence Jeanne (Cohen) Goodman.
(This cogently argued and richly illustrated book rejects ...)
This cogently argued and richly illustrated book rejects the dichotomy between the God of Abraham and the God of the philosophers to argue that the two are one. In God of Abraham, one of our leading philosophers of religion shows how human values can illuminate our idea of God and how the monotheistic idea of God in turn illuminates our moral, social, cultural, aesthetic, and even ritual understanding. Throughout Goodman draws on a wealth of traditional, philosophical, historical, and anthropological materials, and particularly on a wide range of Jewish sources. He demonstrates how an adequate understanding of the interplay of values with monotheism dissolves many of the longstanding problems of natural theology and ethics and guides us toward a genuinely humanistic moral and social philosophy.
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Goodman, Lenn Evan was born on March 21, 1944 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Calvin Jerome and Florence Jeanne (Cohen) Goodman.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Harvard University, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford (England) University, 1968.
Visiting assistant professor philosophy and Near Eastern studies, University of California at Los Angeles, 1968-1969; from assistant to associate professor philosophy, U. Hawaii, Honolulu, 1969-1980; professor philosophy, U. Hawaii, Honolulu, 1981-1994; professor philosophy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, since 1994. Vice president Institute for Islamic/Judaic Studies, Denver, 1984-1985.
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Member American Philosophical Association, Academy for Jewish Philosophy, American Oriental Society.
Married Madeleine Joyce Goodman, August 29, 1965 (deceased October 2, 1996). Children: Allegra Sarah Karger, Paula Goodman Fraenkel.