With clarity and passion, Neil Gillman, respected scholar, theologian and winner of the National Jewish Book Award, reviews his fifty years of religious exploration to give us extraordinary insights into Jewish identity, theology and our relationship with God. Gillman examines the central themes of Judaism to distill the spiritual and theological questions that face all Jews: ? How can we know anything about God? ? What can Judaism teach us about God? ? What is the source of authority for what we believe and how we live as Jews today? ? What is Torah and why is it sacred? ? What, if any, is God's role in human suffering? ? What happens to us after we die? He also traces his own evolution from a more traditional background to a liberal?if not radical?Jewish theologian and how this development has contributed to his pursuit of a coherent and consistent ideology for his denomination, the Conservative Movement.

Neil Gillman, rabbi and PhD, is professor of Jewish philosophy at The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where he has served as chair of the Department of Jewish Philosophy and dean of the Rabbinical School. He is author of Believing and Its Tensions: A Personal Conversation about God, Torah, Suffering and Death in Jewish Thought; The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a Publishers Weekly "Best Book of the Year"; The Way Into Encountering God in Judaism; The Jewish Approach to God: A Brief Introduction for Christians; Traces of God: Seeing God in Torah, History and Everyday Life (all Jewish Lights) and Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew, winner of the National Jewish Book Award.