The Violence of God: Dialogic Fragments.(Transcript)

From: Cross Currents | Date: June 22, 2001| Author: PFAU, JULIE SHOSHANA; BLUMENTHAL, DAVID R. | Copyright information

Introduction

In 1993, I published my post-shoan [1] theology entitled Facing the Abusing God: A Theology of Protest (Westminster John Knox). The book did not have the impact on Jewish and Christian theologians, on psychotherapists, or on holocaust survivors that it should have had. The reasons for this are complicated and I have tried to explain them elsewhere. [2] However, the book has been read very steadily by survivors of child abuse and occasional doctoral students ...

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