Gilman was a member of the Conservative movement's rabbinical body, the Rabbinical Assembly, and was a professor of Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, in Manhattan, New York City, USA.[1]
Gillman was one of the members of the Conservative movement's commission which produced Emet Ve-Emunah ("Truth and Faith"), the first official statement of beliefs of Conservative Judaism.
Books
Believing and Its Tensions: A Personal Conversation about God, Torah, Suffering and Death in Jewish Thought, Jewish Lights, 2013.
Doing Jewish Theology: God, Torah and Israel in Modern Judaism, Jewish Lights, 2008.
Traces of God: Seeing God in Torah, History and Everyday Life, Jewish Lights, 2006.
The Jewish Approach to God: A Brief Introduction for Christians, Jewish Lights, 2003.
The Way into Encountering God in Judaism, Jewish Lights, 2000.
The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought, Jewish Lights, 1997 (see book abstract).
Conservative Judaism: The New Century, Behrman House, 1993.
Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew, Jewish Publication Society, 1992.
Gabriel Marcel on Religious Knowledge, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1980.
Awards
1991: National Jewish Book Award in the Jewish Thought category for Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew[2]
