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

by K. Buhring

Overview

This book is a consideration of major contemporary Black and Jewish understanding 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403984791
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	07/01/2008
Series:	Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

KURT BUHRING is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Saint Mary's College, USA.

Table of Contents

Introducing Black and Jewish Responses to Experiences of Moral Evil and Suffering What Does the Christian Gospel Have to Do With the Black Power Movement?: James H. Cone's God of the Oppressed Why Divine Goodness or Power? Why God? Why Liberation?: Critiques and Defenses of James Cone A New Sinai? A New Exodus? Divine Presence During and After the Holocaust in the Theology of Emil Fackenheim After the Holocaust—the Destruction of the God of History, of Chosenness, and of Patriarchy: Critiques and Defenses of Emil Fackenheim A Consideration of Humanocentric Theism, Resistance, and Redemption

Editorial Reviews

"This book is a significant, in-depth study of James Cone and Emil Fackenheim, two brilliant thinkers of our time, on the issue of suffering, moral evil, and theodicy. Buhring has written insightfully on African American and Jewish responses to racism and the Holocaust." - Harold Kasimow, George Drake Professor of Religious Studies, Grinnell College

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