The Lonely Man of Faith
Categories: Religion & Spirituality
The Lonely Man of Faith is Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's essay on the two accounts of the creation of man in Genesis, first published in 1965 and later issued as a book. Soloveitchik contrasts Adam I, the creative, practical person who masters nature and builds society, with Adam II, who seeks redemption, meaning and covenant with God. He argues that the person of faith lives in both worlds and experiences a deep loneliness in a modern, technological culture that values only the first.
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- Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks: “A complex gem of contemporary Jewish thought at its best.”