Kurt Buhring

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Black Religion / Womanist Thought / Social Justice
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-8479-1
• 2008 edition
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 465g
• ISBN-13: 9781403984791
• ISBN-10: 1403984794
• Artikelnr.: 22954331

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

"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