The Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish TheologyNYU Press, 1 cze 2007 - 320 The theological problems facing those trying to respond to the Holocaust remain monumental. Both Jewish and Christian post-Auschwitz religious thought must grapple with profound questions, from how God allowed it to happen to the nature of evil. |
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... Nazi epoch. These questions extend beyond 1933–1945 and touch the present Jewish situation as well as the whole of the Jewish past. One cannot make the events of 1933–1945 intelligible in isolation. To think, moreover, that one can ...
... Nazi Holocaust or it and previous holocausts is, at best, arbitrary. If one wants to make statements about God's presence (or in this case absence) in Jewish history as a consequence of Auschwitz then one must also, in all theological ...
... Nazism that Berkovits cites in his studies do help advance a case for the existence of evil as a possibility that must be allowed by God in order for there to be true human freedom—and also for the reality of evil as an ingredient in ...
... magnitude and quality unloosed by Nazism not only, or even primarily, increased our opportunities to display courage and love but even more—and essentially—destroyed forever such possibilities for six million 34 steven t. katz.
... Nazi brutality turns on this contention. Yet the irony here is this: if an increase in the diabolic is defended by recourse to the greater good it produces, i.e., more heroism is generated by Nazism than by a lesser plague, then the ...
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Part II The Holocaust and the State of Israel | 209 |
About the Contributors | 301 |
Index of Names | 305 |
Index of Places | 309 |