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Autore |
Fortin Jean Pierre |
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Grace in Auschwitz : A Holocaust Christology / / Jean-Pierre Fortin |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : Fortress Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (323 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Grace (Theology) |
Holocaust survivors |
Holocaust (Christian theology) |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-264) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface -- Introduction : a postmodern situation -- part I. Entering Auschwitz -- 1. Interpreting Auschwitz : for a theologically-oriented reading of history -- 2. Being human and encountering god in Auschwitz -- part II. A conversation in kenotic mode -- 3. Kenotic Christ : salvation in weakness -- 4. Western Christianity meets Auschwitz : looking for Jesus Christ in extermination camps -- Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The postmodern human condition and relationship to God were forged in response to Auschwitz. Christian theology must now address the challenge posed by the Shoah. Grace in Auschwitz offers a constructive theology of grace that enables twenty-first-century Westerners to relate meaningfully to the Christian tradition in the wake of the Holocaust and unprecedented evil. Through narrative theological testimonial history, the first part articulates the human condition and relationship to God experienced by concentration camp inmates. The second part draws from the lives and works of Simone Weil, Dorothee Solle, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Alfred Delp, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Sergei Bulgakov to propose and apply a coherent kenotic model enabling the transposition of the Christian doctrine of grace into categories strongly correlating with the experience of Auschwitz |
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survivors. This model centers on the vulnerable Jesus Christ, a God who takes on the burden of the human condition and freely suffers alongside and for human beings. In and through the person of Jesus, God is made present and active in the midst of spiritual desolation and destitution, providing humanity and solace to others. |
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