LEADER 03693cam a2200373Ia 4500001 77604 005 20240621152824.0 008 021217s1986 xx rb 000 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocm51238019 035 77604 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 PQ2683.I32 |bZ93 1986 100 1 Walker, Graham B., |d1956- 245 10 Elie Wiesel : |ba challenge to contemporary theology / |cby Graham Brown Walker, Jr. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c1986. 300 xi, 222 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-222). 520 The purpose of the dissertation was to delineate significant images in the life and writings of Elie Wiesel which challenge contemporary theology. Chapter 1 outlined a structure of reflection which allowed Elie Wiesel's novels to demonstrate critical theological images from outside the particular field of systematic theology for contemporary theology. Chapter 2 gave an overview of three contemporary Jewish theological responses to the Holocaust. These three distinctively Jewish responses provided a context for the unique contributions of Elie Wiesel's narrative approach. Chapter 3 gleaned three specific images from Wiesel's life and writings: First, the image of a "Wanderer" who is the survivor and the link between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Second, the image of the "Listening God" who remembers the innocent dead and holds the world of the dead in tension with the world of the living. Third, the "Ambiguous Character of God" is the image which resulted from the "Wanderer" telling the story of the victims to a "Listening God." The God who listens accentuates his inactivity during the Holocaust; nevertheless, the "Listening God" remembers the dead of the Holocaust as active subjects in the historical present. Chapter 4 examined the particularly Christian theological responses to the Holocaust of Paul van Buren and Jurgen Moltmann. Van Buren illustrated a Christian theological response to the Holocaust which grappled with the "Supersessionism" of the Christian tradition. Jurgen Moltmann represented a Christian theological response to the Holocaust which struggled with the seriousness of human suffering in the death camps and what that suffering means in the inner life of God. Neither Van Buren nor Moltmann understood the Holocaust as an event with ontological status. Both of these Christian theologians were critiqued by the theological images derived from Elie Wiesel's writings in chapter 3. Chapter 5 presented a summary of Elie Wiesel's theological images outlined in chapter 3. The specific challenges for the image of God, doctrines of redemption, and theological method were reviewed. In concluding, this chapter offered a paradigm for doing Christian theology after Auschwitz and in response to Elie Wiesel's theological challenge. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d2002. |e24 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Wiesel, Elie, |d1928-2016 |xCriticism and interpretation. 650 0 Holocaust (Jewish theology) 600 10 Wiesel, Elie, |d1928-2016 |xReligion. 650 0 Holocaust (Christian theology) 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib77604/8628712.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 994 X0 |bLHM 852 0 |bstacks |hPQ2683.I32 |iZ93 1986 852 |bebook