Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation: Foreword by Desmond Tutu and Gustavo Gutierrez

ISBN-13: 9781602583450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 253 str.

Marc H. Ellis

Opis

Turmoil still grips the Middle East and fear now paralyzes post-9/11 America. The comforts and challenges of this book are thus as timely as when first published in 1987. With new reflections on the future of Judaism and Israel, Ellis underscores the enduring problem of justice. Ellis' use of liberation theology to make connections between the Holocaust and contemporary communities from the Third World reminds both Jews and oppressed Christians that they share common ground in the experiences of abandonment, suffering, and death. The connections also reveal that Jews and Christians share a common cause in the battle against idolatry--represented now by obsessions for personal affluence, national security, and ethnic survival. According to Ellis, Jews and Christians must never allow the reality of anti-Semitism to become an excuse for evading solidarity with the oppressed peoples--be they African, Asian, Latin American or, especially, Palestinian.

Spis treści

• Foreword by Desmond Tutu and Gustavo Gutierrez
• Introduction
• 1. A Shattered Witness
• The Witness of Elie Wiesel
• A Broken Covenant
• The Commanding Voice of Auschwitz
• Moment Faiths
• The Holocaust as a Universal Crisis
• 2. The Cost of Empowerment
• The Third Era of Jewish History
• The New Anti-Semitism
• Jews Without Mercy
• 3. Memory as Burden and Possibility
• Holocaust as Burden
• Dissenters in Zion
• Prophetic Warnings
• 4. A Tradition of Dissent
• The Internal Conflict over Zionism, 1937-67
• Victory and Occupation, 1967-87
• Jewish Responses to the First Palestinian Uprising, 1987-93
• Oslo, the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and Beyond, 1993-99
• 5. Toward an Inclusive Liturgy of Destruction
• Bitburg and the Messianic
• Thinking the Unthinkable
• Envisioning a Common History
• The Revenge Must Stop
• 6. Liberation Struggles and the Jewish Community
• Liberation Theologies from Around the World
• A Palestinian Theology of Liberation
• Four Elements of a Jewish Response
• 7. From Holocaust to Solidarity
• The Challenges of a New Theology
• Practicing Justice and Compassion in a Post-Holocaust/Post-September 11th World
• Is Peace Possible in the Middle East in the 21st Century?
• Epilogue: The Coming of Constantinian and Evangelical Judaism
• Notes
• Index