Ethics and theology after the Holocaust /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pollefeyt, Didier (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Leuven : Peeters, [2018].
Subjects:	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Moral and ethical aspects. Ethics, Modern > History. Christian ethics > History. Christianity and other religions > Judaism > 1945- Judaism > Relations > Christianity > 1945- Holocaust (Christian theology) Since 1939 Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Section one: Introduction. Post-Holocaust ethics and theology: A Catholic perspective
Post-Holocaust ethics and theology: A non-insider perspective
Section two: Perpetrators. The perpetrator: Devil, machine or idealist? Ethical interpretation of the Holocaust. I. Diabolisation
II. The anonymity of the torture machine
III. The enthusiasm of the perpetrator
IV. Conclusion: Ethics after Auschwitz
The morality of Auschwitz?. I. Ethics and morality: A critique of modern ethics
The Nazi ethic
A critique of Peter Haas' position
Section three: Victims. The banality of the good: What can we learn from the victim on the Holocaust?. I. Animals and heroes
II. Choiceless choice
III. Camp ethics
IV. Everyday goodness
V. Beyond self-preservation
VI. The body matters
Section four: Jewish responses: Ethics. To love the Torah more than God. Emmanuel Levinas' Jewish thought. I. Levinas and the Holocaust
II. Il y a: Philosophical translation of the Holocaust experience
III. The unbearable weight of human hypostasis
IV. The power of powerlessness
V. Trauma and God
The encounter of Athens and Jerusalem in Auschwitz. Emil L. Fackenheim's Jewish thought. I. Totalitarian thought under critique
II. A philosophy of difference
III. Philosophy and trauma
IV. God and ethics
V. The terror of ethics?
Section five: Sociological and anthropological responses. Is modernity to blame for the Holocaust
Auschwitz or how good people can do evil: An ethical interpretation of the perpetrators and the victims of the Holocaust in light of the French thinker Tzvetan Todorov. I. Introduction
II. Human or inhuman character of the perpetrators?
III. Are we wolves to each other (Hobbes) or are we each other's keepers (Genesis)? about the victims of the Holocaust
IV. Conclusion
Section six: Christian responses: Forgiveness and reconciliation?. Ethics and the unforgivable after Auschwitz. I. First paradigm: Diabolisation- The evildoer as diabolical figure, and the return of vengeance
II. Second paradigm: Banalisation- The evildoer trivialized and the inculpability of evil
III. Third paradigm: Ethicisation- The evildoer ethicised and the apology of evil
IV. Beyond horror and excuse: The evildoer as self-deceiver and the meaning of forgiveness
V.A post-Holocaust interpretation of the conception of 'unforgivable'
VI. Conclusion
Forgiveness after the Holocaust. I. The problem of giving forgiveness
II. The problem of refusing forgiveness
III. Moral anger and justice as appropriate reactions to evil
VI. Victimism
V. Remembering for the future
VI. Forgiveness as a free act
VII. The unforgiveable
VIII. Forgiveness and reconciliation
IX. To forgive oneself
X. Substitute forgiveness
XI. Intergenerational bonds and loyalty
XII. Forgiveness between already and not yet
XIII. Forgiveness and reconciliation as eschatological restitution
XIV. Theological paradox
Section seven: God. Eclipsing God. I. Religion without theodicy
II. Manichaeism versus monotheism
III. Evil as privatio boni
IV. Evil as perversio boni
V. Perversio dei
VI. Otherwise than being
Section eight: Christ. Christology after Auschwitz. I. Jews, Christians, and the crucified Christ
II. Auschwitz as the end of Christological triumphalism
III. Christologies of continuity
IV. One covenant and two covenant theories
V. Continuity and discontinuity
VI. Moltmann's Christology
VII. Constitutive and representative understandings of Jesus as saviour
VIII. Christ past and present
IX. The weeping Messiah
The Holocaust as irrevocable turning point in Jewish-Christian relations. Section nine: Interreligious dialogue. The other is not the same: Interreligious dialogue as hermeneutic power of encounter. I. Exclusivism
II. Inclusivism
III. Pluralism
IV. Particularism
V. Hermeneutics
Section ten: Bible. Texts of terror: Post-Holocaust biblical hermenteutics. I. The text NRSV
II. Setting the problem
III. Contextualisation
IV. Various strategies to deal with the passage
V. Revelation in Pauline texts: God writes straight on crooked lines
Section eleven: Nature. A post-Holocaust theology of creation. I. The face of nature?
II. Towards a hermeneutics of nature
III. Man: Lord and master over nature?
IV. Nature as a meeting place with the other
V. The miracle of nature?
VI. The Messianic creative assignment of man
VII. The difference between man and animal
VIII. Plea for an ethically qualified anthropocentrism
IX. Against the Nazi deification of nature
X.A Catholic re-appreciation of nature after Auschwitz
Section twelve: Holocaust education. Overcoming Holocaust fatigue in the classroom. I. Four explanations of Holocaust fatigue
II. Beyond Holocaust fatigue
Comparing the incomparable: On the use of the Holocaust as an analogy in contemporary social issues and education. I. Paradigms of Holocaust education