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

by Buhring, Kurt

• ISBN13: 9781403984791
• ISBN10: 1403984794
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book is a consideration of major contemporary black and Jewish understandings 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.

Author Biography

Kurt Buhring is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Saint Mary’s College.  His areas of scholarly and teaching interest include contemporary theology, interreligious dialogue, and religion and science. 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introducing Black and Jewish Responses to Experiences of Moral Evil and Suffering	p. 1
What Does the Christian Gospel Have to Do with the Black Power Movement?: James Cone's God of the Oppressed	p. 15
Why Divine Goodness or Power? Why God? Why Liberation?: Critiques and Affirmations of James Cone	p. 61
A New Sinai? A New Exodus? Divine Presence During and After the Holocaust in the Theology of Emil Fackenheim	p. 85
After the Holocaust: The Destruction of the God of History, of Chosenness, and of Patriarchy; Critiques and Affirmations of Emil Fackenheim	p. 131
A Consideration of Humanocentric Theism, Resistance, and Redemption	p. 159
Notes	p. 197
Bibliography	p. 233
Index	p. 255
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