Conceptions of God, Freedom, and Ethics in African American and Jewish Theology
Author:   K. Buhring
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
ISBN:  

9781403984791


Pages:   262
Publication Date:   01 July 2008
Format:   Hardback
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Conceptions of God, Freedom, and Ethics in African American and Jewish Theology


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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.

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Author:   K. Buhring
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.475kg
ISBN:  

9781403984791


ISBN 10:   1403984794
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   01 July 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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

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<p>&#8220;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.&#8221;-- Harold Kasimow, George Drake Professor of Religious Studies, Grinnell College


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

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