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.
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
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
