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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... activities a sense of the universal message that Judaism is about. The only universal message this generation did experience was, as stated above, the lesson that after the Shoah a nation must rely for its well-being and safety only on ...
... activity of God.16 In this way these past “root experiences” are lived through as “pres- ent reality” and the Jew of every age is “assured that the past saving God saves still.”17 In contrast, “epoch making events” are not formative for ...
... activity or presence in history, all our earlier concrete concerns about maintaining the integral vitality of Judaism resurface. For the God of creation, covenants, Sinai, and redemption is altogether different, i.e., qualitatively ...
... activity that went into the murder of a [single] Jewish child, the reality in which the deed was done, as well as the end for which it was done, are absolutely different from all other actual and intended acts of murder in history.5 At ...
... activity to be in some proportional relation to that activity. The rabbis, in turn, defined the nature of divine retribution as “a measure for a measure” (hdym dgnk hdym). The following Mishnah is one example of the manner in which ...
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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 |