Auschwitz and Absolution: The Case of the Commandant and the Confessor
Published on 8. December 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-62698-529-2 (ISBN)
Description
"An Auschwitz commandant's confession to a Catholic priest poses a critical challenge to Christian notions of forgiveness"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Maryknoll
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 206 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
214 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62698-529-2 (9781626985292)
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James Bernauer, SJ, is Emeritus Kraft Family Professor at Boston College where he was in the Philosophy Department. He was also director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning. His fields of interest include Holocaust Studies, German Jewry, and the philosophies of Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt. He has published many essays for many volumes including "A Catholic Conversation with Hannah Arendt" in Friends on the Way: Jesuits Encounter Contemporary Judaism and "Philosophizing after the Holocaust" for Jesuit Postmodern: Scholarship, Vocation, and Identity in the 21st Century.