A user's guide to Franz Rosenzweig's Star of redemption / Norbert M. Samuelson.

Originally published: Richmond: Curzon, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I: The elements, or the everlasting fore-world. God and his being, or metaphysics - movement from the mythic to the concealed God -- The world and its meaning, or metalogic - movement from the plastic to the enchanged world -- The human and his self, or metaethics - movement from the tragic to the secluded human -- -- PART II: The course, or the always-renewed world. Creation, or the everlasting ground of things - movement from the enchanted to the created world -- Revelation, or the ever-renewing birth of the soul - movement from the concealed to the loving God -- Redemption, or the eternal future of the kingdom - movement from the secluded to the disclosed soul of the human -- -- PART III: The structure, or the eternal over-world - on the possibility of entreating the kingdom. The fire, or the eternal life - movement from disclosed human to created image of God -- The rays, or the eternal way - movement from created world to soul -- The star, or the eternal truth - movement from loving God to the all (redeemed God).