Table of Contents
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Preface
1. TYPES OF APPROACHES TO HOLOCAUST SUFFERING Practical Responses as Alternatives to Theodicy
Theoretical Theodicy Continental Alternatives to Theodicy Kant's Practical Turn From Theoretical Theodicy to Practical Faith Hegel's Hubris: Theodicy Revived Hegel as Prototypical Target of Critique
2. EXISTENTIAL ENCOUNTER WITH EVIL Gabriel Marcels Response to Suffering as a Trial
Problem and Mystery in Philosophy Marcel's Objections to the Theodicy Problem Faith and Hope: The Discovery of Meaning in Suffering
Relation to the Thou: Availability and Fidelity Suffering as a Trial Hope, Transcendence, and Immortality Acceptance of Suffering
The Limitations of Marcel's Approach after Auschwitz
3. DIALOGICAL FAITH Martin Buber's I-Thou Response to Suffering and Its Meaning
The Dichotomy between I-It and I-Thou Attitudes God-Language within the Limits of I-Thou Relation A Narrative Faith Response to Suffering
Hasidic Narratives of Suffering and Redemption The Book of Job The Eclipse of God and the Holocaust
Post-Holocaust Faith in God
4. MARXIST THEORY AND PRACTICE Scientific and Humanist Marxism
Marx's Materialist Method
Materialist Analysis of History Social Class and Suffering Ideology Critique
The Cold Stream: Scientific Marxism The Warm Stream: Humanist Marxism
Modified Materialism Hope: The Rejection of Determinist Teleology
5. FAITH AS HOPE IN HISTORY Ernst Bloch and Political
Post-Holocaust Theology Suffering in History: Against Teleological Theodicy Hope as Political Vision and Real Possibility: Resistance to Suffering Religious Faith as the Praxis of Hope
Apolitical Christianity and Political Faith Moses and Job: Heroes of the Hebrew Bible Jesus and the Immanence of God's Kingdom
Hope and Suffering in Jürgen Moltmann's Post-Holocaust Theology
Theology of Hope Divine Suffering after Auschwitz Marxian Hope as Eschatology
6. SOLIDARITY AND RESISTANCE Johann Baptist Metz's Theodicy-Sensitive Response to Suffering
Metz's Critiques of Bourgeois Subjectivity and Existentialist Theology Theodicy and the Effacement of Suffering in History
Theodicy and Bourgeois Apathy Auschwitz and Anti-Theodicy Objections to Divine Suffering
Metz's Political Faith: Dangerous Memory and Solidarity
Biblical Narrative as Memory The Functions of Religious Memory
A Theodicy-Sensitive Response to Suffering after Auschwitz
7. PRAGMATICS, EXISTENTIAL AND POLITICAL Comparison, Contrast, and Complementarity
Contrasting Personal and Political Approaches
Situating Suffering in "Existence" and "History" The Religious Posture of Hope The Religious Posture toward Other Persons: I-Thou Relation or Solidarity
Complementarity between Political and Existentialist Approaches: The Practical Insights of Contextual Liberation and Post-Holocaust Responses to Suffering
Memory Solidarity Hope Mystical Faith
8. BEYOND THEODICY Evaluating Theodicy From a Practical Perspective
The Possibility and Appropriateness of Theodicy
Practical Faith in God The Epistemic Impossibility of Theodicy The Moral Scandal of Theodicy
Guidelines for Faith Responses to Evil and Suffering after Auschwitz
Epistemic Humility Moral Sensitivity Religious Practice Narrative Memory
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
