The Holocaust lies, often
unacknowledged, near the heart of our contemporary crisis of religious faith.
The horrific fruit of two millennia of Christian antisemitism, the slaughter
calls into sharp question the moral and intellectual credibility of the Churches
and the Christian faith itself. Can Christianity ever recover? In Broken
Gospel? Peter Waddell suggests that it can, but only by facing
unflinchingly the history that paved the way for the Nazi genocide, and the
Churches' sins of omission and commission as it took place.
Engaging
with both Christian and Jewish scholarship, Waddell also approaches with
sensitivity the theological issues that arise from the horror: questions of how
the claimed holiness of the Church relates to its wickedness; of
Christian-Jewish relations; of prayer and providence; of heaven and hell, and
the faint possibility of forgiveness. Scholars, clergy and general readers
alike will be challenged by this exercise in repentance and reconstruction, and
inspired by the possibility it offers for Christian theology and practice to
flourish once more.
- ISBN10 0227178475
- ISBN13 9780227178478
- Publish Date 24 November 2022
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint James Clarke & Co Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Language English