God of sense and traditions of non-sense / Sigve K. Tonstad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tonstad, Sigve, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Doctrines.

Judaism.

God.

Jesus Christ--Jewish interpretations.

Jesus Christ.

Jewish interpretations.

Jewish interpretations of Jesus Christ.

Physical Description:

xxii, 453 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Wipf & Stock, [2016]

Summary:

One hundred taxis lined up on Church Street in Oslo on November 26, 1942, deployed in order to round up the city's Jews and send them to Auschwitz. This reality anchors God of Sense and Traditions of Non-Sense: it is theology from a Holocaust perspective. The brash Elihu excoriating Job for his insistence that he is owed an explanation for the calamities that have befallen him. This is the book's opening salvo. Job speaking of a God of sense, Elihu and Job's three friends inaugurating a tradition of non-sense: this is the existential and theological predicament. The problem of finite suffering in this life addressed in the theological tradition with the prospect of infinite, endless suffering, in this book described as a key element in Traditions of Non-Sense. Back to the millions of Jews, among them 188 women and 42 children from Oslo, deported, gassed, and cremated-in God of Sense this is not seen as a problem that defeats belief, but as the reality that demands a religious and theological account of human existence. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I God and Sense

Chapter 1 God of Sense and Traditions of Non-Sense 3

Chapter 2 Creed of Anguish 22

Chapter 3 God of Sense in the Early Christian Narrative 36

Chapter 4 The Problem of Making Sense 53

Chapter 5 What God Did Not Say and Jesus Did Not Do-and Why It Matters 67

Part II Bursts of Sense

Chapter 6 Paradise Lost: Making Sense of Opposing Senses 87

Chapter 7 Sense and Nonsense in the Murder of Abel 104

Chapter 8 On Level Ground with the Judge of All the Earth 125

Chapter 9 Singular Sense: Abraham and the Binding of Isaac 142

Chapter 10 Face to Face with the God of Sense 163

Chapter 11 Sense Dismembered: The Rape of the Concubine in Judges 183

Chapter 12 Moving the Goalposts of Sense 202

Chapter 13 A Man Who Took a Timeout from Sense 217

Chapter 14 The Sense of the Voice from the Whirlwind 238

Chapter 15 Going Head to Head with Bogus Sense 264

Chapter 16 Ambushed by the Sense of Abundance 282

Chapter 17 Lost Sense in the Letters of Paul 302

Part III The Sense of the Ending

Chapter 18 The Grand Inquisitor and the Sense of Jesus 327

Chapter 19 Common Sense-and Sense Uncommon 344

Chapter 20 Divine Transparency-and the Stolen Horse 365

Chapter 21 The Sense of the Ending 384.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781498233132

1498233139

OCLC:

937453516

Publisher Number:

99967526253