Cloud of smoke, pillar of fire: Judaism, Christianity, and modernity after the Holocaust
TitleCloud of smoke, pillar of fire: Judaism, Christianity, and modernity after the Holocaust
Author
Call number296.3/0005
Object number01172a
Place of publicationNew York, New York, United States
Year of publication
1977
Physical descriptionpp7-55
MaterialArticle
ISBN087068499X
NotesPapers given at the International Symposium on the Holocaust held at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine,New York City,June 1974 pp7-55;;;Reflections on the Holocaust
Description
Greenberg sees the Holocaust as an unprecedented challenge to Judaism and Christianity because it radically contradicts the central affirmation of both faiths. Is there something inherent in Chraistian teaching that created a context for the unprecedented anti-semitism and mass murder of the Holocaust?