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Listening for God: Religion and Moral Discernment. By Howard Lesnick. New York: Fordham University Press1998. Pp. XIII, 249. $29.95. ISBN: 0-823-21860-0. Paper. $20.00. ISBN: 0-823-21861-9.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

Milner S. Ball
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , 2001 , pp. 725 - 728
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2000

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1. A non-religious religion will not seem novel to readers familiar with Dietrich Bonhoeffer's writing on a non-religious Christianity.

2. So do the texts of the Jewish tradition become “a treasure house of light, of illumination, pointing us deep into the mystery.” (39)

3. He says that his teacher speaks “of the word ‘God’ not as a name, but as a job description.” (36)

4. Without his faith, he would be driven to what his colleague Michael Moore calls “the ‘devastating’ conclusion that ‘the only thing to be said about either watermelons or concentration camps is that some people like them and some people don't.’” (53)