Long Night's Journey into Day
2nd Edition
A Revised Retrospective on the Holocaust
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Description
Long Night's Journey Into Day is a stimulating and provocative attempt to deal with the impact and meaning of the Holocaust within contemporary Christian and Jewish thought. To Jews, the Holocaust is the most terrible happening in their history, but it must also be seen as a Christian event. The Eckardts call for a radical rethinking of the Christian faith in the light of the Holocaust, examining such issues as the relation between human and demonic culpability, the charge of God's guilt, and the reality of forgiveness. They clarify the theological meaning of the Holocaust and the responsibility that must be borne for it by the Christian Church, and discuss possible responses to it as exemplified in the writings of selected modern theologians and church councils. This enlarged and revised edition takes into account new topics and developments, including the issue of Austrian responsibility for the Holocaust, the significance and aftermath of Bitburg, and antisemitism in German feminism. More detailed attention is also given to other modern genocides and occasions of humanly-caused mass death. Additional literary, historical, and religious works are considered and appropriate quotations incorporated. The new edition also includes a revised preface, an updated bibliography and two new appendices.
Readership
For academics and students of theology, philosophy and history, particularly Jewish-Christian relations and Holocaust studies.
Table of Contents
Forewords by Irving Greenberg and Franklin H. Littell. Preface to the revised edition. Personal Acknowledgements. Return to the Kingdom of Night. Die Endlösung. Dilemmas of the scholar. Remembering. The temptation in remembrance and the danger in amnestia. Six moral-historical propositions. Singularity. From the unique to the uniquely unique. The "necessity" of the Devil. The question asked of God. Filling the circle of culpability. Dangers and Opportunities. The ruler who is really ruler. Life against faith. Beyond the opposites. Toward conciliation. Forgiveness. Servitude and Freedom. Responses to the Holocaust. Model 1: The pre-Holocaust past as slaveholder. Model 2: Cracks in the prison bars. Jürgen Moltmann and Model 1. Liberation: Model 3. The objectivity of guilt. The Jews and Jesus Christ. The faithfulness of God. Theology of the cross. The issue of the Resurrection. Reaffirmations. Political power and the People Israel. Turn to the Kingdom of Day. Hope and the People Israel. Hope and the Christian Church. Hope beyond hope. Appendix 1. The Christian world goes to Bitburg. Appendix 2. We are called to remember in worship: creating Christian Yom HaShoah liturgies. Notes. Selected bibliography. Index.
Details
- No. of pages:
- 277
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © Pergamon 1988
- Published:
- 10th October 2014
- Imprint:
- Pergamon
- eBook ISBN:
- 9781483297033
About the Authors
Alice L. Eckardt
A. Roy Eckardt
Affiliations and Expertise
Lehigh University, PA, USA
Irving Greenberg
Franklin H. Littell
Reviews
@qu:A stimulating and undoubtedly controversial attempt to deal with the impact and meaning of the Holocaust within contemporary Christian and Jewish thought and life. @source:Internet on the Holocaust and Genocide @qu:"Had the Jew Jesus of Nazareth lived in the 'right' time and 'right' place, he would have been dispatched to a gas chamber. Many of the Nazi executions of Jews were carried out by believing Christians". These stark book and rivet the reader's attention. @source:The Ecumenical Review (VOL 41 NO. 4) @qu:... the authors' writing style is remarkably lucid for a scholarly monograph and conveys to the reader a map of the unsettling and profound intellectual and moral difficulties which confront the Christian world after the Holocaust. @source:Alan S Rosenbaum, Cleveland State University, in Holocaust and Genocide Studies Volume 5 Number 2 @from:Sophia Senyk, Pontificial Oriental Institute, Italy @qu:...a substantially revised reissue of the 1982 classic...presents challenging new informntion in the form of quotations and observations from scholars and survivors, utilizing sources not included in the first edition. The chapters startle us now when viewed through the lens of recent history. The writing is skillful, the images trenchant. @source:Journal of Ecumenical Studies
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