Fire in the ashes : God, evil, and the Holocaust / edited and introduced by David Patterson and John K. Roth. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2005. - 1 online resource (xviii, 350 pages). - The Pastora Goldner series in post-Holocaust studies .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

Annotation Sixty years after it ended, the Holocaust continues to leave survivors and their descendants, as well as historians, philosophers, and theologians, pondering the enormity of that event. In this book, a group of Jewish and Christian scholars, members of he Pastora Goldner Symposium, attempt to understand divine justice in the face of evil.



9780295803159


Holocaust (Christian theology)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.
Theodicy.
Good and evil--Religious aspects.
Suffering--Religious aspects.
Holocaust (Jewish theology)


Electronic Books.

BT93 / .F574 2005