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Book SynopsisContemporary scholars in all disciplines have long recognized that the Shoah is a critical challenge to Christianity and Western civilization, as well as a watershed event in Jewish history. Steven L. Jacobs has completed two complementary works dealing with contemporary religious responses to the Shoah, one from the Christian perspective, the other from the Jewish perspective. This work focuses on the Christian responses to the Holocaust. Contents: Revisionism and Theology, Harry James Cargas; Evil and Existence: Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr Revisited in Light of the Shoah, Alan Davies; Suffering, Theology, and the Shoah, Alice Lyons Eckardt; Mysterium Tremendum: Catholic Grapplings with the Shoah and its Theological Implications, Eugene J. Fisher; In the Presence of Burning Children: The Reformation of Christianity after the Shoah, Douglas K. Huenke; How the Shoah Affects Christian Belief, Thomas A. Idinopulos; A Contemporary Religious Response to the Shoah: The
Trade Review...illuminating....The two volumes constitute a most useful resource for serious students of post-Holocaust thought. -- Seymour Cain, Visiting Scholar, UCSD * Religious Studies Review *
...a remarkably fresh and thoughtful collection of the responses to the Shoah. There are eloquent new voices as well as eminent old ones in the volume of Jewish responses. -- Seymour Cain, Visiting Scholar, UCSD
...a remarkably fresh and thoughtful collection of the responses to the Shoah. There are eloquent new voices as well as eminent old ones in the volume of Jewish responses. -- Seymour Cain, Visiting Scholar, UCSD
...illuminating....The two volumes constitute a most useful resource for serious students of post-Holocaust thought. -- Seymour Cain, Visiting Scholar, UCSD * Religious Studies Review *
