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Death Of God Movement And The Holocaust, Vol. 55 »

Authors: Stephen R. Haynes, John K. Roth
ISBN-13: 9780313303654, ISBN-10: 0313303657
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: June 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Stephen R. Haynes

STEPHEN R. HAYNES is Albert B. Curry Chair of Religious Studies at Rhodes College, where he has taught since 1989.

JOHN K. ROTH is the Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, where he has taught since 1966.

Book Synopsis

Evaluates the religious and cultural legacy of the "Death of God" movement and its relationship to the Holocaust.

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In the 1960s, four religious thinkers from the US<-->Thomas Altizer, William Hamilton, Richard Rubinstein, and Paul van Buren<-- >intensified Friedrich Nietzsche's 19th-century claim that "God is dead," causing a stir in Christian and Jewish circles alike. This book contains their 1966 article, "Toward a Hidden God" (originally published in ); and papers from a 1996 symposium, including reflections by each of the four theologians on the ways in which awareness of the Holocaust affected their thinking, and responses to their presentations by other noted scholars. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Series Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: The Holocaust and the Death of God - Encounter or Reencounter?
Pt. 1	The Death of God Movement Is Born
1	Toward a Hidden God	3
Pt. 2	The Death of God and the Holocaust - Reconsidering the Encounter
	Practitioners
2	The Holocaust and the Theology of the Death of God	17
3	Genocide and the Death of God	25
4	From the Secular to the Scriptural Gospel	35
5	Radical Theology and the Holocaust	43
	Respondents
6	After the Holocaust: The Death of God and the Profaning of Texts	57
7	The Holocaust and the Death of God: A Response to Altizer, Hamilton, and Rubenstein	63
8	The Holocaust, Genocide, and Radical Theology: An Assessment of the Death of God Movement	69
Pt. 3	The Death of God and the Holocaust - Analyzing the Encounter
9	The Death of God Movement and Twentieth-Century Protestant Theology	79
10	The Death of God: An African-American Perspective	91
11	The Death of History and the Life of Akeda: Voices from the War	99
12	Christians and Pharisees: Jewish Responses to Radical Theology	111
	Epilogue	131
	Bibliography	135
	Index	143
	About the Editors and Contributors	149