Conceptions of God, freedom, and ethics in African American and Jewish theology

Conceptions of God, freedom, and ethics in African American and Jewish theology / Kurt Buhring.

This book is a consideration of major contemporary African American and Jewish theological understandings of God, human nature, moral evil, suffering, and ethics, utilizing the work of James Cone and Emil Fackenheim. Specifically, it examines how profound faith in a just God is sustained, and even s...

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Main Author: Buhring, Kurt
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Black religion, womanist thought, social justice.
Subjects:
Cone, James H.
Fackenheim, Emil L.
Black theology.
Suffering > Religious aspects > Christianity.
African Americans > Religion.
Black power.
God (Judaism)
Suffering > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
RELIGION > Christian Theology > General.
African Americans > Religion
Black power
Black theology
Suffering > Religious aspects > Christianity
Suffering > Religious aspects > Judaism
Afroamerikanischer Synkretismus
Gotteslehre
Freiheit
Theologische Ethik
Jüdische Theologie
Schwarze Theologie.
Gottesvorstellung.
Theodizee.
Jüdische Theologie.
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Table of 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.

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