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Shattered Tablets
David Klinghoffer
其他書名
Why We Ignore the Ten Commandments at Our Peril
出版
Random House Publishing Group
, 2007-08-21
主題
Religion / Biblical Commentary / Old Testament / General
Religion / Ethics
Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
ISBN
0385521898
9780385521895
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=IpYOjl2FtnwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Is morality based on some essential truth or is it defined by society? In this highly original critique of American social mores and popular culture, David Klinghoffer argues that the Ten Commandments are essential to maintaining a morally healthy society. With the meticulousness of a scholar, he begins by excavating the meaning of the Commandments. Drawing on the millennia-old rabbinical work
Mechilta
, he explains that the Decalogue was written on two tablets to show that when a country neglects the Commandments written on the first tablet—those having to do with the relationship between God and people—the interpersonal relationships described on the second tablet suffer irreparable damage as well.
Addressing such timely topics as the controversy over public displays of the Commandments and the battles over intelligent design, Klinghoffer demonstrates that Christians and Jews are united in their opposition to the pagan aspects of our culture. In the tradition of Hebrew prophets like Jeremiah and Isaiah, he describes our failings with humor and compassion but also with anger and disappointment. An unusual, incisive perspective on the role of religion in society,
Shattered Tablets
is sure to spark debate. In the end Klinghoffer argues that by shrugging off the Bible as a guide and turning toward secularism, America has created a crude, cruel, and dishonest national life.