(God) After Auschwitz: Tradition and Change in Post-Holocaust Jewish ThoughtThe impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century, argues Zachary Braiterman, has profoundly affected the future shape of religious thought. In his provocative book, the author shows how key Jewish theologians faced the memory of Auschwitz by rejecting traditional theodicy, abandoning any attempt to justify and vindicate the relationship between God and catastrophic suffering. The author terms this rejection "Antitheodicy," the refusal to accept that relationship. It finds voice in the writings of three particular theologians: Richard Rubenstein, Eliezer Berkovits, and Emil Fackenheim. |
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... reading countless drafts as supervisor of what was then my doctoral dissertation. His line-for-line eye shaped and ... reader for their acute attention to this manuscript for Princeton University Press. These people all forced me to ...
... reading, my focus is twofold: theological and literary. In the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, Rubenstein ... readers might even object that I have applied it too broadly, that I have found theodicy where none in fact exists. This ...
... Readers will find this author largely unsympathetic to this task, but not entirely. Indeed, I suggest at the end of Chapter 3 that religious thinkers must sometimes take this risk in ultimately desperate attempts to draw good out of ...
... reading,” and “rhetoric.” These hermeneutical foci lead directly to postmodern critical theory. Now obviously, Rubenstein, Berkovits, and Fackenheim display neither the same ironic self-consciousness nor sense of play shared by so many ...
... readings-of-tradition. Having offered a more nuanced rendering of “tradition” in the first part of this book, I ... readers, foment resistance, rally solidarity, and carve out new theological identities. Rubenstein proclaimed “the death ...