The Death of God Movement and the Holocaust Radical Theology Encounters the Shoah

Subjects:

• Religious Studies » Theology/Spirituality
• History » Holocaust Studies
• Philosophy » Philosophy (General)
• Multicultural Studies » Jewish Studies

Reviews:

• Comprising twelve chapters, each written by a respected scholar in the field of theological studies and the Holocaust, the book surveys the subject from every possible angle....Crisply written and sensitively organized, the book is a useful introduction to the subject and a virtual primer on current themes in academic theology.
  —Jewish Book Council

• Endorsement From John B. Cobb, Codirector
  Center for Process Studies
  Claremeont, California: The late sixties were a time of cultural ferment, and the radical theologians wrote with an intensity, an authenticity, and a raw power rarely found in theology before or since. Their work broke out of the ghetto to which theology had been consigned and engaged the general public. This volume offers the opportunity to revisit that time and also to hear the current voices of the same thinkers as they too think back on those days. The book makes it clear that the issues they raised then have been more bypassed than resolved.
• Endorsement From Michael Berenbaum, President
  Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
  Professor of Theology, The University of Judaism: Stephen Haynes and John K. Roth have brought together 12 important scholarly essays on the death of God movement that not only review its contribution to theology three decades ago, but reinvigorate its confrontation with the Shoah, the abolute evil of the Holocaust. Essays by Thomas Altizer, William Hamilton, Richard L. Rubenstein, and the late Paul Van Buren return us to a special moment in the mid 60s when theology had moved from the Seminary to the front pages of the newspapers, and one spoke of God's death and man's coming of age. By supplementing these fascinating essays -- written for a conference that reunited the principles -- with essays by other theologians, some who were on the scene 30 years ago and some who were just beginning their careers, Haynes and Roth have given the death of God movement serious scrutiny.

Table of Contents:

• Series Foreword
• Introduction: The Holocaust and the Death of God: Encounter or Reencounter? by Stephen R. Haynes and John K. Roth
• The Death of God "Movement" Is Born
• Toward a Hidden God by Time, April 8, 1966
• The Death of God and the Holocaust--Reconsidering the Encounter
• The Holocaust and the Theology of the Death of God by Thomas J. J. Altizer
• Genocide and the Death of God by William Hamilton
• From the Secular to the Scriptural Gospel by Paul M. van Buren
• Radical Theology and the Holocaust by Richard L. Rubenstein
• After the Holocaust: The Death of God and the Profaning of Texts by Edith Wyschogrod
• The Holocaust and the Death of God: A Response to Altizer, Hamilton, and Rubenstein by Thomas Idinopulos
• The Holocaust, Genocide, and Radical Theology: An Assessment of the Death of God Movement by John K. Roth
• The Death of God and the Holocaust: Analyzing the Encounter
• The Death of God Movement and 20th Century Protestant Theology by John J. Carey
• The Death of God: An African American Perspective by Hubert G. Locke
• The Death of History and the Life of Akeda: Voices from the War by Gershon Greenberg
• Christians and Pharisees: Jewish Responses to Radical Theology by Timothy A. Bennett and Rochelle L. Millen
• Epilogue by John K. Roth and Stephen R. Hayes
• Bibliography
• Index