Will Herberg

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Will Herberg (1901-1977) was an American Jewish writer, intellectual and scholar. He was known as a social philosopher and sociologist of religion, as well as a Jewish theologian.

He was brought up in a secular Jewish family in Manhattan, and became a communist, a follower of Jay Lovestone in the American Communist Party. He later turned away from Marxism and became a religious conservative, founding the quarterly Judaism with Robert Gordis and Milton Konvitz. During the 1950s two books, Judaism and Modern Man and Protestant, Catholic, Jew set out influential positions, respectively on Judaism and the American religious tradition. During the 1960s he was Religion Editor of National Review, and taught at Drew University.

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The Heritage of the Civil War (1932)
The Principles of Unionism (1936)
The CIO, Labor's New Challenge (1937)
Judaism and Modern Man: An Interpretation of Jewish Religion (1951)
Protestant, Catholic, Jew. An essay in American religious sociology (1955)
The Writings Of Martin Buber (1956) editor
Four Existentialist Theologians, a Reader from the Works of Jacques Maritain, Nicholas Berdyaev, Martin Buber, and Paul Tillich (1958)
Faith Enacted As History: Essays in Biblical Theology (1976)
From Marxism to Judaism : The Collected Essays of Will Herberg (1992) edited by David Dalin