| At First Glance Archive: Michael Gottsegen on David Hartman's Israel and the Jewish Tradition, An Ancient People ... (3047 words) |
 | Hartman also speaks to the concerns of two constituencies in particular, the religious Zionists who have been rudderless since the collapse of their messianically charged vision of a Greater Israel, and the Jewish, secular Israelis who are seeking a way of meaningfully connecting with the Jewish tradition without letting go of modernity. |
| Hartman seems to assume that if the religious Zionists can be persuaded to sign on, and if they can be persuaded about the wisdom of creating a Jewish public culture that might appeal to the Jewishly-interested secular populace, then this latter group will also sign on. |
| Hartman argues against this perception of irrelevance and suggests that the critique of idolatry must be applied today against misplaced and excessive reverence for the unique and the particular, whether it is one’s unique faith, ethnic group or cause. |
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