(God) After Auschwitz: Tradition and Change in Post-Holocaust Jewish ThoughtPrinceton University Press, 23 nov 1998 - 204 pagina's The impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century, argues Zachary Braiterman, has profoundly affected the future shape of religious thought. In his provocative book, the author shows how key Jewish theologians faced the memory of Auschwitz by rejecting traditional theodicy, abandoning any attempt to justify and vindicate the relationship between God and catastrophic suffering. The author terms this rejection "Antitheodicy," the refusal to accept that relationship. It finds voice in the writings of three particular theologians: Richard Rubenstein, Eliezer Berkovits, and Emil Fackenheim. |
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... figure of the survivor, a language of witness, and an antiaesthetic of bitter despair and resistance. Primo Levi left Jewish theologians with the figure of the “Musselmann”—the camp denizen broken by what Jean Amery called the Nazi ...
... figure of guilt and redemption, but a victim of tragic happenstance. In stark contrast, Berkovits denied that the Holocaust posed any unique theological challenge to traditional belief and Jewish texts. Ordained at the modern Orthodox ...
... figure requiring justification in the face of catastrophe. Religious thinkers must also justify social institutions and textual canons. The Holocaust has threatened the physical community of Israel, its Torah, and the motif of covenant ...
... figures for whom revelation offers little hope or consolation. I ask my readers in advance to note the marked ambivalence with which I approach the use of rhetoric by these thinkers. I have employed both a hermeneutic of charity and a ...
... figures into the center of Jewish thought. In the process they came to formulate a religious sensibility (we explain in the conclusion: a religious aesthetic) that is unique in the history of Jewish thought. We cannot do complete ...
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(God) After Auschwitz: Tradition and Change in Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought Zachary Braiterman Gedeeltelijke weergave - 1998 |
(God) After Auschwitz: Tradition and Change in Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought Zachary Braiterman Gedeeltelijke weergave - 1998 |