Unholy Alliance: Religion and Atrocity in Our Time

by Marc H. Ellis

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800630805
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	02/21/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Marc H. Ellis is retired University Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor University. Among his publications areEncountering the Jewish Future (2012), Reading the Torah Out Loud (2007), Practicing Exile (2001), Oh, Jerusalem! (1999), and Unholy Alliance (1997), all from Fortress Press. He is also a regular contributor on Mondoweiss: The War of Ideas in the Middle Eastwith a series called Exile and the Prophetic

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Religion and the Cyle of Atrocity

We Who Come After: The Eruption of Barbarism and the Jewish Search for God

The Broken Covenant

Crimes against the Future

The Loss of Jewish Innocence

The Inverted Shema

Subverting the Religion of the Conqueror: Evangelization, Resistance, and the Judgment of God

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

In the Shadow of Christian Life: Atrocity and the Concentric Tradition of Reading

Gospel of Treblinka/Book of Palestine

The Moral Core of Judaism and Christianity

Atrocity and the Task of Theology

God of Life, God of Death: Renewal, Ecumenism, and the Debate without End

Attempts at Christian Renewal

The God of Life

Indigenous Jewish Life

Breaking the Silence

God in an Age of Atrocity

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