Conceptions of God, Freedom, and Ethics in African American and Jewish Theology

2008. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4039-8479-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

Reihe: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buhring, K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 H. Cone's God of the Oppressed Why Divine Goodness or Power? Why God? Why Liberation?: Critiques and Defenses 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 Defenses of Emil Fackenheim A Consideration of Humanocentric Theism, Resistance, and Redemption

Über Autor(innen)

KURT BUHRING is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Saint Mary's College, USA.