Understanding World Religions - Chapter 18: What did Martin Buber Believe about God?

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Globalization and high-speed communication put twenty-first century people in contact with adherents to a wide variety of world religions, but usually, valuable knowledge of these other traditions is limited at best.
Understanding World Religions presents religion as a complex and intriguing matrix of history, philosophy, culture, beliefs, and practices. Hexham believes that a certain degree of objectivity and critique is inherent in the study of religion, and he guides readers in responsible ways of carrying this out.
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[@jonhanish7572]

It's fascinating that this is entitled "What did Martin Buber believe about God?" without ever talking about the "Eternal Thou" which Buber writes about extensively or realizing that God is found (and experienced) in the moment of spiritual connection that is defined by the I-Thou relationship.

[@fexurbis123]

I thought the same. All extremely interesting, but does not address the question in the title.

[@kaitlyntaylor8537]

He speaks extensively on that in his book, “Understanding World Religions”. This is just a small overview from that chapter, but you can find the conversation of the “I-Thou” relationship in his book.

[@SeekersofUnity]

Keep Seeking..

[@desmondmccabe8321]

Not very credible or insightful (certainly not 'sympathetic') account of buber - 'never quite clear as to exactly what he is getting at' (??!!!). Buber wanted to unite in practice and in thought the love of God and love of neighbour and saw this unity in day-to-day life as opposed to life restricted to ascetic or gnostic perspective. His writings are painfully subtle and precise. But this account is rather unsubtle. 'Ancestral' religion...!!! Buber was disliked within the Zionist state because of his humane radicalism and because his thought was deeply appealing to modern Christian thinkers - he was not Jewish enough, that is!! Buber is perhaps the most challenging and precise of thinkers in the religious field since the 1900s. Mendes-Flohr is infinitely more perceptive.

[@Keffinated]

"His writings are painfully subtle and precise." After reading Buber's replies to his critics in The Library of Living Philosophers (vol 12), it became apparent to me that it is very hard to characterize Buber's convictions without adhering to his exact words.