Beyond Theodicy
Subtitle: Jewish and Christian Continental Thinkers Respond to the Holocaust (Suny Series in Theology and Continental Thought)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: October 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780791455234
Subjects: Christian theology; Philosophy of religion; Religion; Judaism - Theology; Religion - Church History; Theodicy; Holocaust (Jewish theology); Christian Theology - General; Religious; Holocaust (Christian theology); Philosophy; Political science; Christianity - Theology - General
Description: "Beyond Theodicy analyzes the rising tide of objections to explanations and justifications for why God permits evil and suffering in the world. In response to the Holocaust, striking parallels have emerged between major Jewish and Christian thinkers centering on practical faith approaches that offer meaning within suffering. Author Sarah K.

Pinnock focuses on Jewish thinkers Martin Buber and Ernst Bloch and Christian thinkers Gabriel Marcel and Johann Baptist Metz to present two diverse rejections of theodicy, one existential, represented by Buber and Marcel, and one political, represented by Bloch and Metz. Pinnock interweaves the disciplines of philosophy of religion, post-Holocaust thought, and liberation theology to formulate a dynamic vision of religious hope and resistance."--BOOK JACKET.