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Overview
Beyond Theodicy analyzes the rising tide of objections to explanations and justifications for why God permits evil and suffering in the world. In response to the Holocaust, striking parallels have emerged between major Jewish and Christian thinkers centering on practical faith approaches that offer meaning within suffering. Author Sarah K. Pinnock focuses on Jewish thinkers Martin Buber and Ernst Bloch and Christian thinkers Gabriel Marcel and Johann Baptist Metz to present two diverse rejections of theodicy, one existential, represented by Buber and Marcel, and one political, represented by Bloch and Metz. Pinnock interweaves the disciplines of philosophy of religion, post-Holocaust thought, and liberation theology to formulate a dynamic vision of religious hope and resistance.Synopsis
Efforts to resolve the goodness of God and the existence of evil extend back to the ancient world, but the destruction of two World Wars and the Holocaust have spurred a particular urgency to the project in the Western world. Pinnock (religion, Trinity U.) explores the works of four post-Holocaust thinkers who reject such a project: the existentialist religious thinkers Gabriel Marcel and Martin Buber and the Marxian- influenced religious thinkers Ernst Bloch and Johann Baptist Metz. She emphasizes the similarities between the Jewish and Catholic figures with common intellectual influences and the differences between the writers of the same faiths. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR