Jews, Church & Civilization
An Integrated Historical Timeline
David Birnbaum’s Jews, Church & Civilization is a uniquely distinctive work on the extraordinary historical odyssey of the Jews.
Birnbaum starts not with Abraham, but somewhat more adventurously, with the ‘origin’ of the cosmos as we know it. The author uniquely places the Jewish journey within the context of Western and Asian history and advance.
Playing–out themes of the ebbs–and–flows of empires, discovery and exploration, scientific, intellectual and artistic advance, Birnbaum injects history with spice, flavor, irony and texture.
Jewish and rabbinic scholarship are given not inconsiderable attention. The author of the iconic Summa Metaphysica philosophy series articulates the flow of Jewish intellectual advance winding through the centuries – in the context of world and Jewish history.
A feast for the mind and the soul.
About the Author
David Birnbaum is known globally as “the architect of Potentialism Theory” – a unified philosophy/cosmology/metaphysics. The paradigm-challenging theory is delineated in Birnbaum’s 3-volume Summa Metaphysica series (1988, 2005, 2014).
A riposte to Summa Theologica of (St.) Thomas Aquinas, the Birnbaum treatise (see PotentialismTheory.com) challenges both the mainstream Western philosophy of Aristotelianism and the well-propped-up British/atheistic cosmology of Randomness (see ParadigmChallenge.com).
The focus of over 150 reviews and articles (see SummaCoverage.com), a course text at over 15 institutions of higher learning globally (see SummaCourseText.com), Summa Metaphysica was the focus of an international academic conference on Science & Religion April 16-19, 2012 (see Conference1000.com).
David Birnbaum is, as well, the Editor-in-Chief of the in-progress Mesorah Matrix series on Jewish thought and spirituality: 10-volume, 10-theme, 150+ global Jewish thought leader essayists (see Mesorah1000.com).
In the history realm, David Birnbaum is the author of the 2-volume The Crucifixion – of the Jews, and of the 7-volume Jews, Church & Civilization. His Crucifixion series, in particular, traces a direct trajectory from the Canon Gospels in the First Century to Auschwitz in the Twentieth.
Birnbaum is a graduate of Yeshiva University High School (Manhattan), CCNY (City College of New York – Engineering) and Harvard. His commentary blog is www.ManhattanObserver.com.
David Birnbaum Major Works
As Author
3-volume Summa Metaphysica (www.philosophy1000.com)
2-volume The Crucifixion (www.crucifixion1000.com)
7-volume Jews, Church & Civilization (www.civilization1000.com)
As Editor-in-Chief
10-volume Mesorah Matrix (www.mesorah1000.com)
(target completion: 2020)
As Conceptualizer
3-volume Summa Spinoffs (www.Spinoffs1000.com)
8-volume Potentialism Theory via Graphic-Narrative
(www.TheoryGraphics1000.com)
As Commentator
www.ManhattanObserver.com
Metaphysics–related
Summa Metaphysica series
www.Philosophy1000.com
Summa Metaphysica I:
Religious Man: God and Evil
(1988)
[originally published by KTAV Publishing]
Summa Metaphysica II:
Spiritual Man: God and Good
(2005)
Summa Metaphysica III:
Secular Man: The Transcendent Dynamic
(2014)
Summa Metaphysica:
Supplement: Articles on Summa
(2013 and onward)
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spin–offs from
Summa Metaphysica:
www.Spinoffs1000.com
God’s 120 Guardian Angels
www.Angels1000.com
The Lost Manual
www.Lost1000.com
Cosmic Womb of Potential
www.CosmicWomb1000.com