God and Humanity in Auschwitz: Jewish-Christian Relations and Sanctioned MurderTransaction Publishers, 2009 M08 1 - 355 pages God and Humanity in Auschwitz synthesizes the findings of research developed over the last thirty years on the rise of anti-Semitism in our civilization. Donald J. Dietrich sees the Holocaust as a case study of how prejudice has been theologically enculturated. He suggests how it may be controlled by reducing aggressive energy before it becomes overwhelming. Dietrich studies the recent responses of Christian theologians to the Holocaust and the Jewish theological response to questions concerning God's covenant with Israel, which were provoked by Auschwitz. Social science has dealt with the psychosocial dynamics that have supported genocide and helps explain how ordinary persons can produce extraordinary evil. Dietrich shows how this research, combined with theological analyses, can help reconfigure theology itself. Such an approach may serve to help dissolve anti-Semitism, to aid in constructing such positive values as respect for human dignity, and to point the way to restricting future outbreaks of genocide. God and Humanity in Auschwitz surveys which religious factors created a climate that permitted the Holocaust. It also illuminates what social science has to tell us about developing a strategy that, when institutionally implemented, can channel our energies away from sanctioned murder toward a more compassionate society. The book has proven to be an essential resource for theologians, sociologists, historians, and political theorists. |
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... emerged as a systematized program of cruelty and destruction that has hermeneutically informed post - 1945 theological reflection and social science research . This tragic horror , perpetrated in a supposedly Christian civilization ...
... emerged during and after the Enlightenment as Europe adjusted to the industrial revolution . Given the research already published in a panoply of books and journals , the time has come to analyze systematically the scholarly efforts and ...
... emerged through the speculative reflections that have developed during the past centuries of human interaction . What does freedom mean ? How is the individual to relate to the group ? Along with uncovering the historical facticity ...
... emerge . In comprehending God and humanity at Auschwitz , I shall initially survey Christian antisemitism and then ... emerged as a counterpart to Christian reflections . Theologians from both the Jewish and Christian traditions appear ...
... emerged : ( 1 ) rejection / election and ( 2 ) inferiority / fulfillment . In brief , the Jews were purportedly rejected while the Gentiles were elected . This motif was constructed on the " two peoples " allegory and the ...
Contents
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Jewish People | 61 |
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Scripture and Contextual Antisemitism | 99 |
2527 | 106 |
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Christology and Antisemitism | 159 |
61 | 187 |
Emil Fackenheim | 209 |
Humanity and God as the Architects of Society | 217 |
Political Theology and Foundational Values | 227 |
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The Holocaust and Modernity | 259 |
Conclusion | 291 |
Bibliography | 309 |
Index | 351 |
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