Core tenet of Reconstructionist Judaismheld by most
God is the power that makes for salvation.
Kaplan's naturalism: not a person who intervenes, but the process working through nature and community that makes life holy.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Kaplan was a religious naturalist: he rejected a supernatural God who intervenes, chose people, or answers prayer, and redefined God as the power or process in the universe that makes for salvation and human fulfillment. That is a genuine theological departure rather than a liberalization, and it is why he was excommunicated by an Orthodox rabbinical body in 1945, which publicly burned his prayer book.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
Sound rightly spoken has power.
Vedic Religion
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Samadhi — union in stillness.
Hinduism · the interior
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Vairocana — the cosmic buddha.
Buddhism · figure
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Kundakunda.
Jainism · figure
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God contracted to make room for the world.
Judaism
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The presence — assurance to fire.
Christianity · the interior
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