The Holocaust casts a heavy shadow over the twenty-first century. The
Nazi extermination camps radically call into question the very
foundations of Christianity, modernity and the postmodern world. This
book challenges and critically reconstructs ethics and theology by
bearing witness to the victims, as well as shining a light on the
perpetrators and bystanders, thus providing the basis for a renewed
Christian understanding of good and evil for our time. The result is a
comprehensive and interdisciplinary post-Holocaust ethics and theology,
charting questions at the heart of a new synthesis: our concepts of God,
the human person and the (post)modern world, as well as our
understanding of ecology, politics, education, sacred texts,
Christology, interreligious dialogue, forgiveness and reconciliation and
eschatology. The central idea running through the twenty-one chapters of
this volume is that the commandment “not to grand posthumous victories
to Hitler” is an ongoing and often demanding task that calls for
complexity, compassion and renewed commitment to transcendence in all
and everything.
- ISBN13 9789042937512
- Publish Date 3 October 2018
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country BE
- Imprint Peeters Publishers
- Format eBook
- Pages 426
- Language English