Praise
"Reading God Is the Good We Do has been an exhilarating spiritual, intellectual, and homiletic experience. With admirable thoroughness and delightful felicity of style, Benedikt offers a prophetic polemic against the major moral misteachings of traditional theologies and religions. He does this without denying or rejecting "God" and without disparaging various religious traditions and cultures. While I have misgivings about trusting humankind to find the good without a contraposed and humbling Force "out there" reminding us of our self-idolatries, I find much of the theology of theopraxy hospitable to Biblical and Rabbinic thought. I find particularly strong resonance in the idea of "mutual choosing." Perhaps most admirably, however, the theology of theopraxy finds a new place in the religious worldview for secularists and atheists who "do good." And vice versa. This is probably necessary if there is to be hope for our common future." Avraham Feder, Rabbi Emeritus, Moreshet Yisrael Synagogue, Jerusalem