Reconstructionist Judaism

Denomination·Founded 1922 CE

Judaism → Reconstructionist Judaism

Branch

History & overview · every faith gets one

Judaism as an evolving religious civilization.

Mordecai Kaplan's American movement: Judaism not as revealed law but as the evolving civilization of the Jewish people — community at the center, God rethought as process, and tradition given a vote, not a veto.

The founding

Its founding is bound to Mordecai Kaplan — 1922 CE.

What it holds

The divine. God as the power that makes for salvation — process, not supernatural person.

Death and after. This-worldly; the hereafter held very lightly.

The line

descent is public here — where it came from, what left it
Judaism — c. 1000 BCE Reconstructionist Judaism — 1922 CE
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