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Conceptions of God, Freedom, and Ethics in African American and Jewish Theology / by K. Buhring.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buhring, Kurt.
- Series:
- Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice, 2945-6983
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Judaism--Doctrines.
- Judaism.
- Theology.
- Jewish Theology.
- Christian Theology.
- Local Subjects:
- Jewish Theology.
- Christian Theology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2008.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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 Cone's God of the oppressed
- Why divine goodness or power? why God? why liberation? : critiques and affirmations 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 affirmations of Emil Fackenheim
- A consideration of humanocentric theism, resistance, and redemption.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-254) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612050657
- 9781282050655
- 1282050656
- 9780230611849
- 0230611842
- OCLC:
- 319510108
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