Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prologue: Flames in the Darkness xi
4. PART ONE. THE BURDEN OF EVIL 1
5. Introduction 3
6. 1 Fire and Ashes The “Tempter-God,” Evil, and the Shoah 7
7. 2 Jean Améry: Memories of Evil and Consequences for the Representation of Jewish Identity in Christian Theology 34
8. 3 Judaism in Protestant Encounters with the Shoah 59
9. 4 Locating God: Placing Ourselves in a Post-Shoah World 84
10. PART TWO. SEARCHING TRADITIONS
11. Introduction 109
12. 5 “Like Pebbles on the Seashore” J. B. Soloveitchik on Suffering 113
13. 6 “Good” Friday after Auschwitz? 137
14. 7 If the Good Becomes the Evil: Antimonotheism in Germany after Reunification and the Problems of the Doctrine of Justification 160
15. 8 Some Fundamental Doubts about Posing the Question of Theodicy in the Post-Holocaust World 189
16. PART THREE. BEYOND THE RUINS?
17. Introduction 215
18. 9 Horror Vacui: God and Evil in /after Auschwitz 219
19. 10 Deliver Us from Evil? Kuhn’s Prayer and the Masters of Death 243
20. 11 Seeking the Fire in the Ashes: A Chasidic Accounting for Evil from the Midst of Evil after the Evil of Auschwitz 272
21. Postscript: The Disturbance of the Witness 299
22. Bibliography 307
23. About the editors and contributors 329
24. Index 335