Confessing Christ in a Post-Holocaust World

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Confessing Christ in a Post-Holocaust World A Midrashic Experiment

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Henry F. Knight

Foreword by Zev Garber

Book Code: GM1088

ISBN: 0-313-31088-2

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31088-1

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216 pages, figures

Greenwood Press

Publication: 3/30/2000

List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Ebook

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Contributions to the Study of Religion

Series Number: 61

Endorsement From Franklin H. Littell
Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey: It is the genius of Henry Knight's discussion that he not only addresses the critical post-shoah questions for believing Christians: he expounds a method of approach that keeps the dialogue open.
Endorsement From Rabbi Irving Greenberg
President
Jewish Life Network: What a marvelous book! Here is a Christian Midrash, full of humane scholarship, driven by Christian and Jewish learning, sustained throughout by profound dialogue. Knight has dared to apply the Holocaust rigorously as a reorienting event for theology. He boldly reorients Christian thinking, reimagines Jesus' role and God's, while remaining deeply faithful to the distinctive power of the Christian and the Jewish traditions. Amazingly, in doing all this, he has harnessed the searing fire of the Shoah, turning it into a sun of righteousness, bringing healing.

Description: The questions posed by the Holocaust force faithful Christians to reexamine their own identities and loyalties in fundamental ways and to recognize the necessity of excising the Church's historic anti-Jewish rhetoric from its confessional core. This volume proposes a new framework of meaning for Christians who want to remain both faithful and critical about a world capable of supporting such evil. The author has rooted his critical perspective in the midrashic framework of Jewish hermeneutics, which requires Christians to come to terms with the significant other in their confessional lives. By bringing biblical texts and the history of the Holocaust face to face, this volume aims at helping Jews and Christians understand their own traditions and one another's.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Introduction
Facing the Night--Wrestling with the Text: Meeting Jacob at the Jabbok and Jesus in Gethsemane
Looking Back at Sodom with Abraham and Jesus: The Search for Hospitality and Justice in the Face of Destruction
The Transfigured Face of Post-Shoah Faith: Critical Encounters with Root Experiences
From the Bush to the Vineyard (and Back): A Post- Shoah Return to Holy Ground
Can These Bones Live? From the Valley of Dry Bones to an Opened Tomb and Beyond
Looking Back over the Journey: Theological Implications for Post-Shoah Faithfulness
The Return to PaRDeS: A Concluding Midrash
Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 99-043405

LCC Class: BT93

Dewey Class: 231


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