Book Description:
It is not enough to probe the historical details of the cataclysmic event of the Holocaust. We need to understand how the Nazis unleashed cultural, political, and religious forces that remain very much with us as we enter the new millennium. Ethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust examines these forces with contributions from seventeen leading scholars on the Holocaust and on Christian Jewish relations. <P>Edited by John Pawlikowski and Judith Banki, Ethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust presents the papers from two major conferences co sponsored by the Cardinal Bernardin Center at Catholic Theological Union. <P>Part One <P>The essays in Part One of this collection were presented at a consultation on the Vatican document on the Holocaust We Remember. Scholars such as Robert Schreiter, Gerard Sloyan, Irving Greenberg, Michael Marrus, Steven Katz, John Morley, and Ronald Modras address four of the major points of controversy regarding We Remember: the legacy of anti Semitism in the church, whether anti Semitism played a significant role during the Nazi period, whether the church bears any responsibility for the Holocaust, and the role of Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust. <P>Part Two <P>Part Two examines three major ethical themes in light of the Holocaust. Michael Berenbaum and John Pawlikowski discuss the overarching moral implications of the Holocaust; John Michalczyk and Peter Haas examine how current medical codes directly result from the horrible Nazi medical experiments; and Peter Hayes and Donald Dietrich discuss what we can learn about economic and social structures of today based on the transformation of German business executives from reluctant supporters to full participants in Hitler's Nazism.
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