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Broken Gospel? Peter M. Waddell

Broken Gospel? By Peter M. Waddell

Broken Gospel? by Peter M. Waddell


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A searching re-examination of Christianity's core beliefs in the light of the Church's complicity in the Holocaust.

Broken Gospel? Summary

Broken Gospel?: Christianity and the Holocaust by Peter M. Waddell

The Holocaust lies, often unacknowledged, near the heart of our contemporary crisis of religious faith. The horrific fruit of two millennia of Christian antisemitism, the slaughter calls into sharp question the moral and intellectual credibility of the Churches and the Christian faith itself. Can Christianity ever recover? In Broken Gospel? Peter Waddell suggests that it can, but only by facing unflinchingly the history that paved the way for the Nazi genocide, and the Churches' sins of omission and commission as it took place. Engaging with both Christian and Jewish scholarship, Waddell also approaches with sensitivity the theological issues that arise from the horror: questions of how the claimed holiness of the Church relates to its wickedness; of Christian-Jewish relations; of prayer and providence; of heaven and hell, and the faint possibility of forgiveness. Scholars, clergy and general readers alike will be challenged by this exercise in repentance and reconstruction, and inspired by the possibility it offers for Christian theology and practice to flourish once more.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Barabbas and His Afterlife The Story of Barabbas What Really Happened? Bearing the Blood: The Consequences of a Story Coda: Reading the Barabbas Story Today 2. Reaping the Whirlwind: The Christian Churches and the Killing Pius XII: Hitler's Pope The Case for the Defence The Case for the Prosecution The Protestants and the Killing Dietrich Bonhoeffer and 'the Jewish Question' The Broader Confessing Church Coda: Christian Nazis? 3. The Aftermath The Protestants and the Aftermath The Catholics and the Aftermath: We Remember Assessed 4. Has the Church Disproved the Gospel? Why Is There a Problem at All? The Usual Defence: Augustine and the Donatists A Broken Church 5. Christians, Jews and Israel The Nostra Aetate Revolution Two Covenants? Coda: Christians and the State of Israel 6. Where Was God? 7. Is Hitler in Heaven? Why Even Ask the Question? A Very Popular, Wrong Answer: Universalism If Universalism Is Not the Answer, What Is? Select Bibliography Index

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GOR013177285
9780227178454
0227178459
Broken Gospel?: Christianity and the Holocaust by Peter M. Waddell
Used - Very Good
Paperback
James Clarke & Co Ltd
2023-05-25
192
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