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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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.

Author Biography

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

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

Review

"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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"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

Details ISBN1349540064 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-10 1349540064 ISBN-13 9781349540068 Format Paperback Year 2008 Publication Date 2008-07-01 Language English Media Book DEWEY 231 Edition 1st Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 262 Author K. Buhring UK Release Date 2008-07-01 AU Release Date 2008-07-01 NZ Release Date 2008-07-01 Illustrations X, 262 p. Edition Description 1st ed. 2008 Series Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice Alternative 9781403984791 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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