Description
Book SynopsisExplores 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.
Table of ContentsPrologue: Flames in the Darkness / David Patterson and John K. Roth
Part One: The Burden of Evil
1. Fire and Ashes: The "Tempter-God," Evil, and the Shoah / Margaret Brearley
In Response
--Britta Frede-Wenger
--David Patterson
--Margaret Brearley
2. Jean Amery: Memories of Evil and Consequences for the Representation of Jewish Identity in Christian Theology / Hanna Holtschneider
In Response
--Peter J. Haas
--John K. Roth
--Hannah Holtschneider
3. Judaism in Protestant Encounters with the Shoah / Peter J. Haas
In Response
--Henry F. Knight
--Rochelle L. Millen
--Peter J. Haas
4. Locating God: Placing Ourselves in a Post-Shoah World / Henry F. Knight
In Response
--Margaret Brearley
--Leonard Grob
--Henry F. Knight
Part Two: Searching Traditions
5. "Like Pebbles on the Seashore": J. B. Soloveitchik on Suffering / Rochelle L. Millen
In Response
--Hannah Holtschneider
--Juergen Manemann
--Rochelle L. Millen
6. "Good" Friday after Auschwitz? / Britta Frede-Wenger
In Response
--Henry F. Knight
Rochelle L. Millen
--Britta Frede-Wenger
7. If the Good Become the Evil: Antimonotheism in Germany after Reunification and the Problems of the Doctrine of Justification / Juergen Manemann
In Response
--David Patterson
--Didier Pollefeyt
--Juergen Manemann
8. Some Fundamental Doubts about Posing the Question of Theodicy in the Post-Holocaust World / Leongard Grob
In Response
--Margaret Brearley
--Didier Pollefeyt
--Leonard Grob
Part Three: Beyond the Ruins?
9. Horror Vacui: God and Evil in/after Auschwitz / Didier Pollefeyt
In Response
--Britta Frede-Wenger
--Peter J. Haas
--Didier Pollefeyt
10. Deliver us from Evil? Kuhn's Prayer and the Masters of Death / John K. Roth
In Response
--Leonard Grob
--Juergen Manemann
--John K. Roth
11. Seeking the Fire in the Ashes: A Chasidic Accounting for Evil form the Midst of Evil after the Evil of Auschwitz / David Patterson
In Response
--Hannah Holtschneider
--John K. Roth
--David Patterson
Postscript: The Disturbance of the Witness / David Patterson and John K. Roth
Bibliography
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
