Language:
English
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy
Angaben zur Quelle:
1,2 (1992) 281-303
Keywords:
Cohen, Arthur A.
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
;
Free will and determinism
Abstract:
Disagrees with Cohen's "dipolar" theism (involving a non-interfering God and emphasis on human freedom or free-will) and its implications for thinking about and responding to the Shoah. The "tremendum" is seen by Cohen to be crucially relevant to man's recognition of a Creator; it is viewed only as a human event with no consequences for God. Cohen's attempt to protect the viability of some God-idea (not the traditional one) in the face of the "tremendum" accomplishes the total disconnection of God and the "tremendum". This type of theology cannot speak meaningfully to the Jewish condition after Auschwitz.
Note:
Appeared also in his "Historicism, the Holocaust, and Zionism" (1992), and in "Wrestling with God" (2007) 613-626.
URL:
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