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Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation

Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation

Name: Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation
Author: Marc H. Ellis
ISBN: 9781602580374

Foreword by Desmond Tutu and Gustavo Gutierrez

by Marc H. Ellis

Imprint: Baylor University Press

Sales Date: 2006-08-04

253 Pages

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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.

Foreword by Desmond Tutu and Gustavo GutierrezIntroduction

1. A Shattered Witness

The Witness of Elie WieselA Broken CovenantThe Commanding Voice of AuschwitzMoment FaithsThe Holocaust as a Universal Crisis

2. The Cost of Empowerment

The Third Era of Jewish HistoryThe New Anti-SemitismJews Without Mercy

3. Memory as Burden and Possibility

Holocaust as BurdenDissenters in ZionProphetic Warnings

4. A Tradition of Dissent

The Internal Conflict over Zionism, 1937-67Victory and Occupation, 1967-87Jewish Responses to the First Palestinian Uprising, 1987-93Oslo, the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and Beyond, 1993-99

5. Toward an Inclusive Liturgy of Destruction

Bitburg and the MessianicThinking the UnthinkableEnvisioning a Common HistoryThe Revenge Must Stop

6. Liberation Struggles and the Jewish Community

Liberation Theologies from Around the WorldA Palestinian Theology of LiberationFour Elements of a Jewish Response

7. From Holocaust to Solidarity

The Challenges of a New TheologyPracticing Justice and Compassion in a Post-Holocaust/Post-September 11th WorldIs Peace Possible in the Middle East in the 21st Century?

Epilogue: The Coming of Constantinian and Evangelical JudaismNotesIndex

MARC H. ELLIS was appointed to the J.M. Dawson Institute of Chruch State Studies at Baylor University in 1998, and was designated in 1999 as both University Professor of American and Jewish Studies and Director of the Center for American and Jewish Studies. He holds an M.A. in American Studies from Florida State University and a Ph.D. in Contemporary Intellectual and Religious Studies from Marquette University. Dr. Ellis is distinguished for his specialization in the areas of Jewish, Christian, and Third World liberation theology, Holocaust and Post-Holocaust theology, and Twentieth-Century Jewish-Christian theology, thought, and dialogue.

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Foreword by Desmond Tutu and Gustavo Gutierrez

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Foreword by Desmond Tutu and Gustavo Gutierrez

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