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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820041803321

Titolo

Fire in the ashes : God, evil, and the Holocaust / / edited and introduced by David Patterson and John K. Roth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2005

ISBN

0-295-80315-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Collana

The Pastora Goldner series in post-Holocaust studies

Altri autori (Persone)

PattersonDavid <1948->

RothJohn K

Disciplina

231.7/6

Soggetti

Holocaust (Christian theology)

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Influence

Theodicy

Good and evil - Religious aspects

Suffering - Religious aspects

Holocaust (Jewish 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. 307-327) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Fire and ashes: the "Tempter-God," evil, and the Shoah -- 2. Memories of evil and consequences for the representation of Jewish identity in Christian theology -- 3. Judaism in Protestant encounters with the Shoah -- 4. Locating God: placing ourselves in a post-Shoah world -- 5. "Like pebbles on the seashore": J.B. Soloveitchik on suffering -- 6. "Good" Friday after Auschwitz? -- 7. If the good becomes the evil: antimonotheism in Germany after reunification and the problems of the doctrine of justification -- 8. Some fundamental doubts about posing the question of theodicy in the post-Holocaust world -- 9. Horror vacui: God and evil in/after Auschwitz -- 10. Deliver us from evil? Kuhn's prayer and the masters of death -- 11. Seeking the fire in the ashes: a Chasidic accounting for evil from the midst of evil after the evil of Auschwitz.