Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-188) and index.
Contents:
Types of approaches to Holocaust suffering: practical responses as alternatives to theodicy -- Existential encounter with evil: Gabriel Marcel's response to suffering as a trial -- Dialogical faith: Martin Buber's I-thou response to suffering and its meaning -- Marxist theory and practice: scientific and humanist Marxism -- Faith as hope in history: Ernst Bloch and political post-Holocaust theology -- Solidarity and resistance: Johann Baptist Metz's theodicy-sensitive response to suffering -- Pragmatics, existential and political: comparison, contrast, and complementarity -- Beyond theodicy: evaluating theodicy from a practical perspective.
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