A Layman's Introduction to Religious Existentialism presents the philosophy of one of the most influential movements of thought in the twentieth century. In a language that is exceptional for its clarity, it explains and assesses the important Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant contributions to modern Soren Kirkegaard, Karl Barth, Franz Rosenzweig, Jacques Maritain, Micolas Berdyaev, Babriel Marcel, Reinhold Neibuhr, Rudolf Bultmann, Martin Buber, and Paul Tillich.
"Eugene B. Borowitz is Sigmund L. Falk Distinguished Professor of Education and Jewish Religious Thought at the Hebrew Union College — Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City, where he has taught since 1962. He is the author of numerous books and the first person to receive a National Foundation for Jewish Culture Achievement Award in Scholarship for work in the field of Jewish thought." - from the 1996 paperback edition of Renewing the Covenant