Ethics and Theology After the Holocaust

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-90-429-3750-5
Verlag: PEETERS PUB

Buch, Englisch, 438 Seiten, Gewicht: 721 g

The Holocaust casts a heavy shadow over the twenty-first century. The

Nazi extermination camps radically call into question the very

foundations of Christianity, modernity and the postmodern world. This

book challenges and critically reconstructs ethics and theology by

bearing witness to the victims, as well as shining a light on the

perpetrators and bystanders, thus providing the basis for a renewed

Christian understanding of good and evil for our time. The result is a

comprehensive and interdisciplinary post-Holocaust ethics and theology,

charting questions at the heart of a new synthesis: our concepts of God,

the human person and the (post)modern world, as well as our

understanding of ecology, politics, education, sacred texts,

Christology, interreligious dialogue, forgiveness and reconciliation and

eschatology. The central idea running through the twenty-one chapters of

this volume is that the commandment “not to grand posthumous victories

to Hitler” is an ongoing and often demanding task that calls for

complexity, compassion and renewed commitment to transcendence in all

and everything.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pollefeyt, D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christentum und Weltreligionen, Weltethos
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah