Fire in the Ashes God, Evil, And the Holocaust
Explores how inquiry about the Holocaust challenges understanding, especially its religious and ethical dimensions. This book investigates differences and disagreements between religious traditions and philosophical perspectives - represents an effort to advance meaningful conversation between Jews and Christians.
1 online resource (xviii, 350 p. )
9780295803159, 9780295985473, 0295803150, 029598547X
1153033710
1. Fire and ashes: the "Tempter-God," evil, and the Shoah
2. Memories of evil and consequences for the representation of Jewish identity in Christian theology
3. Judaism in Protestant encounters with the Shoah
4. Locating God: placing ourselves in a post-Shoah world
5. "Like pebbles on the seashore": J.B. Soloveitchik on suffering
6. "Good" Friday after Auschwitz?
7. If the good becomes the evil: antimonotheism in Germany after reunification and the problems of the doctrine of justification
8. Some fundamental doubts about posing the question of theodicy in the post-Holocaust world
9. Horror vacui: God and evil in/after Auschwitz
10. Deliver us from evil? Kuhn's prayer and the masters of death
11. Seeking the fire in the ashes: a Chasidic accounting for evil from the midst of evil after the evil of Auschwitz