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Last Name
PINNOCK
First Name
Sarah Katherine
Title
Beyond Theodicy: Jewish and Christian Continental Thinkers Respond to the Holocaust
Publisher
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press
Year
2002
Group
HOL
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Contents:

  • Types of approaches to Holocaust suffering: practical responses as alternatives to theodicy
  • Existential encounter with evil: Gabriel Marcel's response to suffering as a trial *Dialogical faith: Martin Buber's I-thou response to suffering and its meaning
  • Marxist theory and practice: scientific and humanist Marxism
  • Faith as hope in history: Ernst Bloch and political post-Holocaust theology
  • Solidarity and resistance: Johann Baptist Metz's theodicy-sensitive response to suffering
  • Pragmatics, existential and political: comparison, contrast, and complementarity
  • Beyond theodicy: evaluating theodicy from a practical perspective.