God and the HolocaustWhere was God when six million died? The twentieth century has never presented a more serious theological question. Over the past forty years it has haunted a series of writers. In this study, Dan Cohn-Sherbok explores the work of eight major Holocaust theologians. He argues that all ultimately fail to reconcile, as they must, the reality of suffering with the loving kindness of God. In the final chapter, he quarries from the Jewish tradition his own solution, which confronts the evil of Nazism but still leaves room for hope. |
Contents
Bernard Maza | 15 |
Ignaz Maybaum | 28 |
Emil Fackenheim | 43 |
Eliezer Berkovits | 56 |
Arthur A Cohen | 68 |
Elie Wiesel | 92 |
The Holocaust and the Afterlife | 119 |
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