Unholy Alliance
Religion and Atrocity in Our Time
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Unholy Alliance: Religion and Atrocity in Our Time
Tragically, religion has often been associated with violence,
repression, war, and vengeance. In this searing work Marc Ellis
asks,
is there God beyond violence?
Ellis's personal quest for religious integrity in the face of evil leads him to probe religious dimensions of both historical violence (in the colonizing of the Americas and the Holocaust) and contemporary eruptions of barbarism in Bosnia, Rwanda, or the Mideast. He also queries the works of prominent contemporary theologians from Moltmann and Ruether to Wiesel and Fackenheim, questioning whether reformist movements might ultimately merely gloss over religious distortions. His uncompromising moral sensitivity poses a frank examination of conscience for all Christians and Jews who seek honestly to engage their tradition and their God.
Ellis's personal quest for religious integrity in the face of evil leads him to probe religious dimensions of both historical violence (in the colonizing of the Americas and the Holocaust) and contemporary eruptions of barbarism in Bosnia, Rwanda, or the Mideast. He also queries the works of prominent contemporary theologians from Moltmann and Ruether to Wiesel and Fackenheim, questioning whether reformist movements might ultimately merely gloss over religious distortions. His uncompromising moral sensitivity poses a frank examination of conscience for all Christians and Jews who seek honestly to engage their tradition and their God.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800630805
- Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5
- Pages 240
- Publication Date February 21, 1997
Endorsements
"Ellis is representative of neither the Jewish nor the Christian mainstream. Nevertheless, he is one of the
most influential Jewish thinkers of his generation."
— Richard L. Rubenstein
"Marc Ellis is emerging as perhaps the most important contemporary Jewish theologian."
— Rosemary Radford Ruether
— Richard L. Rubenstein
"Marc Ellis is emerging as perhaps the most important contemporary Jewish theologian."
— Rosemary Radford Ruether
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
- We Who Come After: The Eruption of Barbarism and the Jewish Search for God
- Subverting the Religion of the Conqueror: Evangelization, Resistance, and the Judgment of God
- In the Shadow of Christian Life: Atrocity and the Concentric Tradition of Reading
- God of Life, God of Death: Renewal, Ecumenism, and the Debate without End
- God in an Age of Atrocity
Prologue: Religion and the Cyle of Atrocity
The Broken Covenant
Crimes against the Future
The Loss of Jewish Innocence
The Inverted Shema
Jewish Power, Christian Power
Rescuing Christianity
Confronting the Ecumenical Deal
The Christianity of the Conquered
Theology and the Struggle of African Americans
Evangelization at Gunpoint
A Negotiated Surrender
Gospel of Treblinka/Book of Palestine
The Moral Core of Judaism and Christianity
Atrocity and the Task of Theology
Attempts at Christian Renewal
The God of Life
Indigenous Jewish Life
Breaking the Silence
Judaism and Christianity beyond God
A Fateful Meeting
A Deeper Bond of Suffering
The Possibility of More Truth
Is There an End to Atrocity?
The Future of Martyrdom
Epilogue: At the Eschatological End of Humanity
Notes
Index