Beyond Theodicy: Jewish and Christian Continental Thinkers Respond to the Holocaust

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189 Index Abraham, 46, 119 acceptance: Buber on, 52, 54; Marcel on, 35; Metz on, 95; Moltmann on, 76; and resistance, 97, 129 Adams, Marilyn McCord, 4, 136, 139 Adorno, Theodor W., 61, 64, 80, 82, 91–92, 103, 160n. 30, 163n. 3, 165n. 22 African-American experience (see also spirituals, African-American; theology: womanist), 2, 92, 108, 115, 116–117, 142, 168n. 24 agency, moral, 112, 115, 116, 118, 125, 133 Anselm, Saint, 3 anti-Semitism, 8, 10 apathy, 85, 87, 103, 127 apocalyptic interruption, 85, 87, 90–92 Aquinas, Thomas, 3 atheism, 70, 104 Augustine, Saint, 3, 140 Auschwitz, 1, 9, 10, 32, 37, 51, 53, 79, 82–83, 87–88, 120, 121, 133, 137, 140 Baal Shem, 49 being (see also philosophy of existence): as opposite of having, 25 belief: as opposite of trust, 42 Benjamin, Walter, 61, 80, 82, 86, 91–93, 103, 109, 164n. 12, 167n. 5 Berger, Peter, 11, 147n. 25 Bible. See Scripture Bloch, Ernst, 7, 21, 82, 86, 92, 103, 108, 133–134; atheistic faith, 70; and Buber, 8; and Christian theology, 65, 75–76, 81–82, 108; and existentialist thought, 70–71; and German Romanticism, 68; and Hegel, 66–67, 70; Holocaust, 66; hope, philosophy of, 70–76, 124; Job, 72–73; Kingdom of God, 74–75; leap, utopian, 69; and liberation theology, 73–74; and Marcel, 152n. 19, 161n. 4; as Marxist, warm stream, 65, 68; and Metz, 81–82; as middle-class, 118; and Moltmann, 75–76, 79–80; Moses, 71–72; political faith, 70–71, 75; praxis, 70; solidarity, 113; theodicy objections of, 65–67; Ultimum, 69, 72, 75 bourgeois subject: Marx, 57; Metz, 83, 84, 87, 164n. 8; Welch, 111 bourgeois thought: existentialist, 98–99, 102, 124, 133–134; middle-class, 83, 105, 114 Buber, Martin, 7, 21, 108; and Bloch, 8, 70, 72, 74; as bourgeois, 98–99; eclipse of God, 51–53; as existentialist, 39, 48, 54; God-language of, 42–46; and Hasidism, 39, 42, 45–49; Holocaust response, 53–54; I-It, 40–42; I-Thou, 40–42, 99, 105–107; Jewishness of, 8, 153n. 1; and Job, 49–51; and Kant, 40, 43–44, 157n. 40; and Marcel, 39, 47, 52, 54, 99–101; and Metz, 81, 83, 95, 141; mysticism, 44, 49, 50; narrative, 46–47, 156n. 27; prayer, 48, 54, 123; revelation, 8, 43, 45; Scripture, 44–47, 50–52; sin, 48, 153n. 3; socialism of, 41, 102, 154n. 12; theodicy objections of, 42–46, 48, 156n. 26, 157n. 39 Bultmann, Rudolph, 24, 39, 74, 86, 155n. 17, 162n. 11 190 INDEX Camus, Albert, 23–25 capitalism, 83, 98, 103, 109; Marxist analysis of, 57–59 Chisolm, Roderick, 4, 145n. 7 class, social (see also bourgeois subject; middle class): conflict, 41, 65; consciousness, 62; interests, 61, 97, 99, 108; marginal, 101; oppression, 105–107, 113, 118, 142 cold stream Marxism. See Marxism, scientific and orthodox communism, 60, 64, 69, 74 Cone, James, 36, 116–119 contextual approaches, 9, 12, 36, 98, 108, 112, 116, 127, 129, 148n. 31 crucifixion, 76–79, 89, 131 dangerous memory, 90–93, 110 defense. See theodicy dialectic,18, 56–57, 86, 118 dialogical philosophy, 39 eclipse of God, 40, 49–52, 53, 54, 95 empathy, 34, 105, 106, 109 encounter. See I-Thou relation Engels, Friedrich, 55 epistemic humility, 139–140 epistemology: Cartesian, 26–27, Kantian, 13–16, 139 eschatology: apocalyptic, 83, 85–87, 90–91; political hope as, 71, 74, 79–80, 103, 107; as theodicy, 6; utopian hope as, 100 Eucharist, 91 evil (see also suffering): and Buber, 48; demonic, 7; dysteleological, 6; justification of (see theodicy); and Kant, 16–17; and Marcel, 28; moral, 16, 140; natural, 16, 140; practical approach to, 2, 7–9, 145n. 2; as suffering, 12; theoretical approach to, 2–7; twentieth century, 1 existentialism, 23, 150n.1 existentialist approach, 7–8, 12, 21, 70; as bourgeois, 98–99, 108; of Buber, 39, 48, 54; critique of, 81, 85–86, 90; to hope, 120; Kantian, 130–131; of Marcel, 23–25; and other-regard, 105–106 Exodus, 72, 90, 118 faith (see also fidelity; hope; I-Thou relation; solidarity): Bloch’s political, 69, 73; Buber’s two types of, 52; existentialist, 24–25; and I-Thou relation, 39, 123; and love of God, 74, 77, 90; and love of neighbor, 107, 114; mystical, 83, 93–96, 98, 122–127, 132, 169n. 39; as opium, 59, 64, 70, 117, 133, 135; as phenomenological datum, 24...