Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2020) 267-296
Keywords:
Jonas, Hans,
;
Rubenstein, Richard L.
;
Berkovits, Eliezer,
;
Greenberg, Irving,
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
;
Jewish philosophy 20th century
Abstract:
The central theological questions raised for Jewish belief by the Holocaust concern the existence and nature of God. In this paper, I focus on four figures who addressed these theological questions in a serious way: Richard Rubenstein, Eliezer Berkovits, Irving Greenberg, and Hans Jonas. I show that Jonas’s argument for a limited and changing God is the most radical of these theological responses and that the radical character of his response can best be appreciated by contrasting his approach with the other three theological accounts, especially in terms of how the problem of theodicy functions in those accounts.
DOI:
10.1017/9781108233705.012
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