Includes bibliographical references (pages127- 131).
Contents
Conscience confronts God -- Human conscience and divine legislation -- Conscience and covenant : vertical and horizontal -- Against conscience -- Witness to goodness -- The conscience of an anti-semite -- Cultivating conscience -- The bridge across the rivers of "either-or."
Summary
By questioning religion's capacity - and will - to break from mindless conformity, Rabbi Schulweis challenges us to counter our current suppressive culture of obedience with the culture of moral compassion, and to fulfill religion's obligation to make room for and carry out courageous moral dissent.
