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

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.

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

Inhalt
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 Holocaustthe 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