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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782803203321

Autore

Buhring K

Titolo

Conceptions of God, Freedom, and Ethics in African American and Jewish Theology [[electronic resource] /] / by K. Buhring

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2008

ISBN

1-282-05065-6

9786612050657

0-230-61184-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2008.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice

Disciplina

202.11

231

Soggetti

Judaism—Doctrines

Theology

Jewish Theology

Christian Theology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-254) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introducing black and Jewish responses to experiences of moral evil and suffering -- What does the Christian gospel have to do with the black power movement? : James Cone's God of the oppressed -- Why divine goodness or power? why God? why liberation? : critiques and affirmations of James Cone -- A new Sinai? a new Exodus? : divine presence during and after the Holocaust in the theology of Emil Fackenheim -- After the Holocaust--the destruction of the God of history, of chosenness, and of patriarchy : critiques and affirmations of Emil Fackenheim -- A consideration of humanocentric theism, resistance, and redemption.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a consideration of major contemporary Black and Jewish understanding of God, examining how profound faith in a just God is sustained, and even strengthened, in the face of particularly horrific and long-standing evil and suffering in a community.