Description
Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist movement, used to be essentially the most influential and controversial radical Jewish thinker within the twentieth century. This book examines the intellectual influences that moved Kaplan from Orthodoxy and analyzes the mix of private, strategic, and career reasons that kept Kaplan as regards to Orthodox Jews, posing a query an important to the working out of any religion: Can an established religious group learn from a heretic who has rejected its so much fundamental beliefs?