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Reading Auschwitz with Barth [electronic resource] : The Holocaust as Problem and Promise for Barthian Theology.

By: Publication details: Cambridge : James Clarke & Co, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (195 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780227902813
  • 0227902815
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reading Auschwitz with Barth : The Holocaust as Problem and Promise for Barthian TheologyDDC classification:
  • 261.26 261.87
LOC classification:
  • BX4827 .B3 L56 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Information; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Section I: Setting the Scene; 1. Facing the Tremendum (I): The Shoah and Modern Jewish Thought; 2. Facing the Tremendum (II): The Shoah and Modern Christian Thought; Section II: Engaging with Barth; 3. The Barthian Barrier: Karl Barth's Natural Theological Nein! to the Holocaust; 4. Shoah as Witness? The Holocaust as a Testifying Event; 5. Barth and Berkovits: The Dialectics of Revelation and the Hester Panim; 6. The Solidarity of Crucified Suffering
Conclusion: The Barthian Challenge to Post-Holocaust Theology-A Caution Against Saying Too MuchBibliography; Back Cover
Summary: It has been widely accepted that few individuals had as great an influence on the church and its theology during the twentieth century as Karl Barth (1886-1968). His legacy continues to be explored and explained, with theologians around the world and from across the ecumenical spectrum vigorously debating the doctrinal ramifications of Barth's insights. What has been less readily accepted is that the Holocaust of the Jews had an equally profound effect, and that it, too, entails far-reaching consequences for the church's understanding of itself and its God. In this groundbreaking book, Barth a.
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Information; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Section I: Setting the Scene; 1. Facing the Tremendum (I): The Shoah and Modern Jewish Thought; 2. Facing the Tremendum (II): The Shoah and Modern Christian Thought; Section II: Engaging with Barth; 3. The Barthian Barrier: Karl Barth's Natural Theological Nein! to the Holocaust; 4. Shoah as Witness? The Holocaust as a Testifying Event; 5. Barth and Berkovits: The Dialectics of Revelation and the Hester Panim; 6. The Solidarity of Crucified Suffering

Conclusion: The Barthian Challenge to Post-Holocaust Theology-A Caution Against Saying Too MuchBibliography; Back Cover

It has been widely accepted that few individuals had as great an influence on the church and its theology during the twentieth century as Karl Barth (1886-1968). His legacy continues to be explored and explained, with theologians around the world and from across the ecumenical spectrum vigorously debating the doctrinal ramifications of Barth's insights. What has been less readily accepted is that the Holocaust of the Jews had an equally profound effect, and that it, too, entails far-reaching consequences for the church's understanding of itself and its God. In this groundbreaking book, Barth a.

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