| The Continuing Agony: From the Carmelite Convent to the Crosses at Auschwitz Contributor(s): Berger, Alan L. (Editor), Cargas, Harry J. (Editor), Nowak, Susan E. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1586842110 ISBN-13: 9781586842116 Publisher: Distribution Partners OUR PRICE: $32.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Holocaust - Religion | Judaism - History - Religion | History |
| Dewey: 940.531 |
| Series: Global Academic Publishing |
| Physical Information: 344 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Topical - Holocaust |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book evolved from the editors' long-standing conviction that informed and honest dialogue is essential in seeking even a partial mending of Christian-Jewish relations after Auschwitz. The task is daunting because of the tortured history involved, and owing to vastly different understandings of basic terms and principles such as forgiveness, history, and repentance. Moreover, political, psychological, and theological triumphalism are far from being vanquished. However, the winds of change seem to be blowing at least in certain quarters of the Roman Catholic Church. And while rejecting the assumption of a moral equivalency between the history of Catholic Christian anti-Semitism and the attitude of Judaism towards their frequent persecutors, one notes the appearance of a more nuanced understanding of Catholicism emerging in sectors of the Jewish community. |