Ethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust Christian and Jewish Perspectives

by Banki, Judith H.; Pawlikowski, John T.

• ISBN13: 9781580511094
• ISBN10: 1580511090
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Sheed & Ward

Summary

It is not enough to probe the historical details of the cataclysmic event of the Holocaust. We need to understand how the Nazis unleashed cultural, political, and religious forces that remain very much with us as we enter the new millennium. Ethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust examines these forces with contributions from seventeen leading scholars on the Holocaust and on Christian-Jewish relations.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
John T. Pawlikowski
Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum Remembered	xv
Judith H. Banki
Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin Remembered	xvii
John T. Pawlikowski
PART I: Consultation on We Remember
Welcoming Remarks	3	(2)
Judith H. Banki
The Vatican Document on the Holocaust: Reflections toward a New Millennium	5	(18)
Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy
Christian Tradition, Anti-Judaism, and Anti-Semitism	23	(12)
Gerard S. Sloyan
The Jewish-Christian Schism: Reflections on the Vatican Document We Remember	35	(16)
Claudia J. Setzer
The Church as Sacrament and as Institution: Responsibility and Apology in Ecclessial Documents	51	(10)
Robert J. Schreiter
The Church as Sacrament and as Institution: Jewish Reflections	61	(20)
Rabbi Irving Greenberg
Jewish Citizenship in Emerging Nation States: Christian Anti-Semitism, Nationalism, and Nazi Ideology	81	(22)
Ronald Modras
Some Reflections on Nationalism, Romanticism, Anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust	103	(14)
Steven T. Katz
We Remember: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Historical Context	117	(16)
Michael R. Marrus
Pope Pius XII in Historical Context	133	(30)
John F. Morley
Closing Remarks	163	(4)
Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy
Summary and Feedback	167	(68)
Peter Steinfels
Appendix A The Vatican and the Final Solution: What was Known, and When	175	(36)
Kevin Madigan
Appendix B Vatican II Revisited	211	(4)
Judith H. Banki
Appendix C The Vatican and the Holocaust: Putting We Remember in Context	215	(12)
John T. Pawlikowski
List of Participants	227	(8)
PART II: Conference on Ethics and the Holocaust
The Impact of the Holocaust on Contemporary Ethics	235	(26)
Michael Berenbaum
The Holocaust: Its Challenges for Understanding Human Responsibility	261	(30)
John T. Pawlikowski
The Ethics of Nazi Human Experimentation: Contemporary Concerns	291	(14)
John J. Michalczyk
Medical Ethics in Light of the Holocaust: A Response	305	(8)
Peter J. Haas
Conscience, Knowledge, and ``Secondary Ethics'': German Corporate Executives from ``Aryanization'' to the Holocaust	313	(24)
Peter Hayes
Conscience, Knowledge, and ``Secondary Ethics'': German Corporate Ethics from ``Aryanization'' to the Holocaust: A Response to Peter Hayes	337	(12)
Donald J. Dietrich
Contributors	349	(4)
Index	353