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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... created to fulfill a universal mission for humanity became for the majority of Jews a meaningless pretense. Putting the question whether Jews still think of their people in terms of chosenness on the level of ritual and dogma, the ...
... created in the image of God. But, what was the impact of this unifying consensus on Jewish selfunderstanding after the war and after the establishment of Israel as Is There a Religious Meaning to the Idea of a Chosen People after the ...
... creation of the Jewish state, as many simplistic historical and theological accounts, offered for all kinds of mixed reasons, have asserted. Whatever relation does exist between Holocaust Europe and the state of Israel is far more ...
... creation of the state of Israel. Whereas the former event is evidence against the 'God hypothesis,' the latter is evidence in its favor.” Neither position is decisively provable—but both are equally meaningful,9 as well as equally ...
... created a world in which there was human freedom but no evil?” And secondly, “Even if certain 'goods' are generated by overcoming or in response to evil, couldn't God either have allowed the production of these goods without so much ...
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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 |