Phillip Stambovsky Devotional Intelligence sku-193541422

Devotional Intelligence and Jewish Religious Thinking: A Philosophical Essay is a hardcover listed under Phillip Stambovsky in Religion & Religious Studies Books (sku-193541422). The essay argues for the intellectual warrant of Jewish religious thinking as “devotional intelligence” through two related principles: knowing as a form of being and the normative principle of “sacral attunement.”

Part I distinguishes this approach from contemporary philosophy of Judaism and favors an Aristotelian sense of intelligence over post-Enlightenment reason as a way to assess religious thought. Part II examines elements of Aristotle's psychology of intelligence used by Maimonides and draws on Hegel to connect Maimonides' account with a modern “science of knowing.”

Part III considers sacral attunement, fundamental attunement, Jewish covenantal praxis, the sacred and the factor of the transcendent in science and religion. Part IV uses an apophatic approach to the divine names, drawing on Kant's “unconditioned condition,” and distinguishes what the names indicate from what they refer to in discussing the attributive names and the Tetragrammaton.