Christianity, Tragedy, and Holocaust Literature

List of contents

Series Foreword
Introduction
The Problem
Tragedy and the Holocaust
Necessity, Destiny, Order, Pattern
Redemptive Knowledge, Intelligibility, Self-Knowledge
Suffering, Innocence, Guilt, Tragic Magnitude
Human Affirmation, Consolatory Theism, Transcendent Values, and Tragic Pleasure
The Tragic Hero
Reflections on Christian Culpability and the Problematics of Belief
Conclusion--Toward a Workable Theory
Bibliography
Index

About the author

MICHAEL R. STEELE is Distinguished Professor of English at Pacific University. He has taught there, devoting much of his time to teaching Holocaust Literature, since 1975. He has served as the president and executive director of the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center and currently serves as the director of Holocaust Education at Pacific University. He is the author of Christianity, Tragedy, and the Holocaust (Greenwood, 1995).

Product details

• Authors: Michael R. Steele, Steele Michael R.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.07.1995
• EAN: 9780313295126
• ISBN: 978-0-313-29512-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Contributions to the Study of Religion: Christianity and the Holocaust—Core Issues
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Religion, Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Second World War, The Holocaust, Ethics and moral philosophy, c 1940 to c 1949, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater