Christian theology and the Holocaust.

Talmage reflects on three recently published books: Rosemary Radford Ruether's Faith and Fratricide, A. Roy Eckardt's Your People, My People, and Franklin H. Littell's The Crucifixion of the Jews. He shows how they represent a radical departure from previous Christian post-Holocaust literature which had been well-meaning but continued to deny any validity to contemporary Jewish religion. These three authors, by contrast, insist that the church must create "theological space" for Judaism. Judaism has not been superseded, they write, and in the words of Eckardt, "all Christian theologizing about the Jewish people must be somehow transcended."