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

• Autore: Buhring Kurt
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2008.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 231
• Soggetto topico: Judaism - Doctrines; Theology; Jewish Theology; Christian 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: 9786612050657; 9781282050655; 1282050656; 9780230611849; 0230611842
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910962903303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice, . 2945-6983