You’ve probably heard of Thomas Aquinas, a prominent medieval scholar who combined Christian theology and Greek philosophy.
Moses Mendelssohn, arguably the founding figure of modern Jewish philosophy, famously quipped that it was the hours of his youth spent studying the philosophical work of another Moses—Moses Maimonides ...
(“Maimonides” by Joel Kraemer, Doubleday, 621 pages, $29.95). The subtitle of this book is “The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds.” Quite a buildup for a man of whom few among us ...
For centuries, a quiet war has raged in the halls of academia and the sanctuaries of theology. It revolves around the fundamental nature of reality. On one side is the physical world-concrete, visible ...
The Spanish government today issued a decree for the organization of an official celebration on the anniversary of the birth of Rabbi Moses Maimonides (the Rambam), whose eight hundredth anniversary ...
For centuries, a quiet war has raged in the halls of academia and the sanctuaries of theology. It revolves around the fundamental nature of reality. On one side is the physical world—concrete, visible ...