Fire in the ashes
Subtitle: God, evil, and the Holocaust
By: edited and introduced by David Patterson and John K. Roth.
Contributors: Patterson, David.; Roth, John K.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Pastora Goldner series in post-Holocaust studies
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Subjects: Holocaust (Christian theology); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.; Theodicy.; Good and evil -- Religious aspects.; Suffering -- Religious aspects.; Holocaust (Jewish theology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Fire and ashes: the "Tempter-God," evil, and the Shoah; title: 2. Memories of evil and consequences for the representation of Jewish identity in Christian theology; title: 3. Judaism in Protestant encounters with the Shoah; title: 4. Locating God: placing ourselves in a post-Shoah world; title: 5. "Like pebbles on the seashore": J.B. Soloveitchik on suffering; title: 6. "Good" Friday after Auschwitz; title: 7. If the good becomes the evil: antimonotheism in Germany after reunification and the problems of the doctrine of justification; title: 8. Some fundamental doubts about posing the question of theodicy in the post-Holocaust world; title: 9. Horror vacui: God and evil in after Auschwitz; title: 10. Deliver us from evil? Kuhn's prayer and the masters of death; title: 11. Seeking the fire in the ashes: a Chasidic accounting for evil from the midst of evil after the evil of Auschwitz.