Holocaust theology - Christian view

Holocaust theology refers to a body of theological and philosophical debate, soul-searching, and analysis, with the subsequent related literature, that attempts to come to grips with various conflicting views about the role of God in this human world and the dark events of the European Holocaust that occurred during World War II (1939-1945) when around 11 million people, including six million Jews were subjected to genocide by the Nazis and their cohorts. "Holocaust theology" is also referred to as "theology nach Auschwitz" ("after Auschwitz" in German), due to the common practice of using ...

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• Holocaust theology - Modern Orthodox Jewish views
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• Holocaust theology - Michael Berenbaum
• Holocaust theology - Richard Rubinstein
• Holocaust theology - Emil Fackenheim
• Holocaust theology - Ignaz Maybaum
• Holocaust theology - Eliezer Berkovits
• Holocaust theology - Harold Kushner Williams Kaufman and Milton Steiberg
• Holocaust theology - David Weiss Halivni
• Holocaust theology - Irving Greenberg
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The Catholic Church has some of the Holocaust victims as declared saints and martyrs. An example is the priest Maximilian Kolbe. Open Theism holds that the holocaust was the result of too little faith in God, rather than too much; and that it is non-sequitur to blame God for humanity's steadfast refusal to obey God's command to "Love our neighbors as ourselves." Others, such as a small segment within evangelical Christianity, explain the Holocaust as part of the curse of Deuteronomy 28:15-68. That passage says that if th ...

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Here are some of the major responses that Jews have had in response to the Holocaust: No new response is needed. The Holocaust is like all other horrific tragedies. This event merely prompts us again to investigate the issue of why bad things sometimes happen to good people. The Holocaust shouldn't change our theology. Rabbinic Judaism has a doctrine from the books of the prophets called mi-penei hataeinu, "because of our sins we were punished". During Biblical times when calamities befell the Jewish people, the ...

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Holocaust theology, Holocaust theology - Jewish theological responses, Holocaust theology - Orthodox and Haredi Jewish responses, Holocaust theology - Modern Orthodox Jewish views, Holocaust theology - Works of important Jewish theologians, Holocaust theology - Michael Berenbaum, Holocaust theology - Richard Rubinstein, Holocaust theology - Emil Fackenheim, Holocaust theology - Ignaz Maybaum, Holocaust theology - Eliezer Berkovits, Holocaust theology - Harold Kushner Williams Kaufman and Milton Steiberg, Holocaust theology - David Weiss Halivni, Holocaust theology - Irving Greenberg, Holocaust theology - Christian view, Holocaust theology - Works of important Christian theologians

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Holocaust theology - Michael Berenbaum. (To be written.) Holocaust theology - Richard Rubinstein. Prof. Richard Rubenstein's original piece on this issue, "After Auschwitz", held that the only intellectually honest response to the Holocaust is the rejection of God, and the recognition that all existence is ultimately meaninglessness. There is no divine plan or purpose, no God that reveals His will to mankind, and God does not care about the world. Man must assert and create his ...

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Holocaust theology, Holocaust theology - Jewish theological responses, Holocaust theology - Orthodox and Haredi Jewish responses, Holocaust theology - Modern Orthodox Jewish views, Holocaust theology - Works of important Jewish theologians, Holocaust theology - Michael Berenbaum, Holocaust theology - Richard Rubinstein, Holocaust theology - Emil Fackenheim, Holocaust theology - Ignaz Maybaum, Holocaust theology - Eliezer Berkovits, Holocaust theology - Harold Kushner Williams Kaufman and Milton Steiberg, Holocaust theology - David Weiss Halivni, Holocaust theology - Irving Greenberg, Holocaust theology - Christian view, Holocaust theology - Works of important Christian theologians

Read more here: » Holocaust theology: Encyclopedia II - Holocaust theology - Works of important Jewish theologians