Considering the rupture of the Holocaust : a recasting of Emil Fackenheim's conception of the Holocaust as absolute rupture with reference to the theology of Eberhard Jüngel / Philip Gordon Ziegler.

Publication | Digitized | Library Call Number: BT93 .Z544 1995

Overview

Summary: Emil Fackenheim, in his major of study To Mend the World, develops an understanding of the Holocaust as an absolute rupture in the continuity of thought--Jewish, Christian and philosophical. After considering the Jewish and philosophical presuppositions of Fackenheim's work, the author attempts to re-cast the idea of the rupture of the Holocaust into a Christian theological idiom, concerned to both adequately receive, and critically assesses Fackenheim's proposal. Based on a number of points of contact both philosophical and theological, the author finds in the thought of the protestant theologian Eberhard Jungel valuable conceptual resources to effect this re-casting. In conclusion, a number of proposals regarding the Christian theological response to the Holocaust are drawn.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Ziegler, Philip Gordon.
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1995
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-114).

Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Dissertation Services, 1997. 29 cm.

Dissertations and Theses

Subjects: Holocaust (Christian theology) Fackenheim, Emil L.--To mend the world. Jüngel, Eberhard--Criticism and interpretation.

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