Ending Auschwitz: The Future of Jewish and Christian Life / Edition 1

by Marc H. Ellis

Overview

In this book, Marc Ellis wrestles with some of the critical issues of contemporary Jewish and Christian life, in particular the issues of Jewish and Christian religiosity after Auschwitz and 1492, two events that are historical and contemporary in their relevance. Both mark Jewish and Christian religiosity in deep and compelling ways. Ellis does not attempt to offer an exhaustive account of either the Holocaust or 1492 or their political, cultural, and religious consequences. Rather, he attempts to share with the reader a point of view that comes from his own experience of these two events as a Jew born in the first generation after the Holocaust, one who has also experienced some aspects of contemporary Christian life. Recorded here are some of the author's reflections that crystallized on and after what became for him, a journey of endings and, as significant, new beginnings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780664255015
Publisher:	Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date:	02/01/1994
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d)
Lexile:	1410L (what's this?)

About the Author

Marc H. Ellis isDirector of the Center for Jewish Studies and Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

Editorial Reviews

A contemporary Jewish theologian (Maryknoll Sch. of Theology), Ellis has also traveled widely; he went to Auschwitz in 1991 as a member of a delegation of Jewish scholars and intellectuals. He views medieval Christian imperialism and conquest, e.g., Columbus in 1492, and Auschwitz as closely connected, yet he sees possibilities for the human solidarity of Jews and Third World Christians in suffering and in hope. In this open-minded, truth-seeking work, he discusses the Middle East and new options of freedom from old Jewish and Christian self-definitions that are increasingly irrelevant. Highly recommended.

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