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Autore |
Buhring Kurt |
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Titolo |
Conceptions of God, freedom, and ethics in African American and Jewish theology / / Kurt Buhring |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-05065-6 |
9786612050657 |
0-230-61184-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Collana |
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Black religion, womanist thought, social justice |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Black theology |
Suffering - Religious aspects - Christianity |
African Americans - Religion |
Black power |
God (Judaism) |
Suffering - Religious aspects - Judaism |
Holocaust (Jewish theology) |
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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 (p. [233]-254) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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