Conceptions of God, freedom, and ethics in African American and Jewish theology / / Kurt Buhring

• Autore: Buhring Kurt
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 231
• Soggetto topico: Black theology; Suffering - Religious aspects - Christianity; African Americans - Religion; Black power; God (Judaism); Suffering - Religious aspects - Judaism; Holocaust (Jewish theology)
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Conceptions of God, freedom, and ethics in African American and Jewish theology
• ISBN: 1-282-05065-6; 9786612050657; 0-230-61184-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815388403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Black religion, womanist thought, social justice.