Facing Death (eBook)

lt;P>Sarah K. Pinnock is professor and chair of religion at Trinity University. She is the author of Beyond Theodicy: Jewish and Christian Continental Thinkers Respond to the Holocaust and editor of The Theology of Dorothee Soelle. The other contributors are Michael Dobkowski, Myrna Goldenberg, Leonard Grob, Rochelle L. Millen, David Patterson, Didier Pollefeyt, John K. Roth, H. Martin Rumscheidt, Amy H. Shapiro, and Lissa Skitolsky.

Prologue: Death as Atrocity / Sarah K. Pinnock

Section One | Engagement with Holocaust Testimony 1. Holocaust Victims Speak; Do We Listen? / Leonard Grob2. Dying in the Death Camps as Acts of Defiance / H. Martin Rumscheidt3. At What Cost Survival? The Problem of the Prisoner-Functionary / Lissa Skitolsky4. Witnessing Unrelenting Grief / Myrna Goldenberg

Section Two | Self-Consciousness of Mortality 5. Living For: Holocaust Survivors and Their Adult Children Encounter Death and Mortality / Michael Dobkowski 6. Bearing Witness to a Grotesque Land / Amy H. Shapiro 7. Melding Generations: A Meditation on Memory and Mortality / Rochelle L. Millen

Section Three | Ethical and Religious Reflection 8. Experiences of Death: Our Mortality and the Holocaust / Sarah K. Pinnock 9. A Jewish Reflection on the Nazis� Assault on Death / David Patterson 10. Auschwitz and Hiroshima as Challenges to a Belief in the Afterlife: A Catholic Perspective / Didier Pollefeyt 11. Facing Death: What Happens to the Holocaust If Death Is the Last Word? / John K. Roth

Epilogue | Witnessing Mortality

Selected Bibliography Editors and Contributors Index