Pilgrim to Unholy Places: Christians and Jews re-visit the Holocaust

by Raymond Pelly

Overview

Through visiting Auschwitz and other horror sites of the Third Reich, the author reflects on the meaning of belief and ethics in today's world in dialogue with Jewish thinkers. His standpoint is the victim Christ of Philippians 2:5-11, a Jewish victim among others and therefore one open to mutual recognition, each hearing the cries of the other.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034321945
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	01/06/2017
Series:	Judaica et Christiana , #26
Edition description:	New
Pages:	367
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Raymond Pelly is an Anglican Priest living and working in New Zealand. He has an MA in Theology from Oxford University and a Doctorate in Ecumenical Theology from the University of Geneva. Besides serving in numerous parishes, he has taught at Westcott House, Cambridge (UK); St John’s College, Auckland (NZ); and the University of Massachusetts, Boston Campus (USA). He was also Visiting Scholar at the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1982/3 and 1995/6. His most recent work, 2005-2014, has been as Honorary Priest Associate at the Cathedral of St Paul, Wellington, New Zealand, where he had a ministry of counselling, spiritual direction and education.

Table of Contents

Introduction: 'Raids on the Unspeakable' – Auschwitz, 1995 – Dachau, 1995 – Lviv, Cernitsa, Warsaw, Treblinka, 2001 – Majdanek, Sobibor, Belzec, 2001 – Dachau, Mauthausen, Hartheim Castle, Flossenbürg, Buchenwald, 2003 – Berlin, 2003 – Mittelbau Dora, Leitenberg, 2006 – Esterwegen, Neuengamme, Ravensbrück, 2008 – 1. Hearing the cries. The Self-emptying Pilgrim Christ, Philippians 2:5–11 on Kenosis – 2. Pilgrim to Unholy Places. A Definition – 3. Thinking with your feet. The Pilgrim’s Way of Knowing – 4. Kneeling and Surviving. The Pilgrim and Prayer – 5. Unholy Places. Site-specific Reckoning with Evil – 6. Holy Places I. Paul Celan and Grief – 7. Holy Places II. Paul Ricœur and Memory – 8. Rachel Weeping for Her Children. Biblical Precursor of the Holocaust – 9. Jewish Responses to the Holocaust. Agency, Divine and Human – 10. Auschwitz and Golgotha (1) Analogue or Adversary? – 11. Auschwitz and Golgotha (2). Impulses for a Shared Covenantal Ethic – 12. God as Co-Passionate. Abyss of Love, Victim-Survivor – 13. Christ and Horrors. Engführung: Narrowing/Impasse – 14. Recognition, Thanksgiving. Honour, Gratitude – 15. Real Hope in the Real World? – Appendix. On De- and Reconstructing Root Metaphors. The Analogy of the Sun.