Hope in an Age of Terror

How Christians can find hope in today's world of violence and uncertainty by following the model of the Trinity.

This theological reflection on evil and suffering, violence and revenge, and identity and otherness attempts to answer an urgent question of our time: "What are we to do now that they have done this to us? How should we respond to this injury, this evil?"

The first part, titled with the metonym of September 10, situates the question of God and suffering within a long tradition of philosophical and theological reflection. After telling the story of the events of 9/11, the second part probes the relationship between violence and religion. Part 3, with the title of 9/12, draws on the writings of Miroslav Volf on reconciliation and the writings of John Zizioulas on a God of communion in order to construct a way in which Christians can live in hope, as God willed by creating us in God's image.

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Hope in an Age of Terror

How Christians can find hope in today's world of violence and uncertainty by following the model of the Trinity.

This theological reflection on evil and suffering, violence and revenge, and identity and otherness attempts to answer an urgent question of our time: "What are we to do now that they have done this to us? How should we respond to this injury, this evil?"

The first part, titled with the metonym of September 10, situates the question of God and suffering within a long tradition of philosophical and theological reflection. After telling the story of the events of 9/11, the second part probes the relationship between violence and religion. Part 3, with the title of 9/12, draws on the writings of Miroslav Volf on reconciliation and the writings of John Zizioulas on a God of communion in order to construct a way in which Christians can live in hope, as God willed by creating us in God's image.

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Hope in an Age of Terror

Hope in an Age of Terror

by Paul J. DaPonte
Hope in an Age of Terror

Hope in an Age of Terror

by Paul J. DaPonte

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How Christians can find hope in today's world of violence and uncertainty by following the model of the Trinity.

This theological reflection on evil and suffering, violence and revenge, and identity and otherness attempts to answer an urgent question of our time: "What are we to do now that they have done this to us? How should we respond to this injury, this evil?"

The first part, titled with the metonym of September 10, situates the question of God and suffering within a long tradition of philosophical and theological reflection. After telling the story of the events of 9/11, the second part probes the relationship between violence and religion. Part 3, with the title of 9/12, draws on the writings of Miroslav Volf on reconciliation and the writings of John Zizioulas on a God of communion in order to construct a way in which Christians can live in hope, as God willed by creating us in God's image.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781570758430
Publisher: Orbis Books
Publication date: 10/28/2009
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xiii

General Introduction 1

Part 1 -9/10

1 The Question of God and Suffering 9

Suffering and Sin: Preliminary Considerations 9

The Question of Evil (and Theodicy's Attempt ac an Answer) 10

Catastrophe as Catalyst 16

2 Evil and Suffering in the Twentieth Century -First Reflection: Auschwitz 19

Historical Background 21

Mvselmänner 23

The Other as the Problem 27

Banality 30

Modernity 33

Glimpses of God at Auschwitz 35

3 Evil and Suffering in the Twentieth Century -Second Reflection: Exclusion 42

Identity 44

Totality vs. Infinity 44

The Other as the Answer 47

Useless Suffering 48

The End of Theodicy 50

4 Evil and Suffering in the Twentieth Century -Third Reflection: Probing Evil 59

The Quest for Pure Identity 60

Envy and Scapegoaring 61

Domination Systems 65

Demonmng 67

Building on Weak Categories 69

5 An Anatomy of Revenge 77

Returning Evil for Evil 77

Victims and Victimizers 80

Israel and Palestine 82

Conclusion to Part One; Theology with Open Eyes 85

Part 2 9/11

6 The Attack 90

Two Hours of Destruction 90

Aftermath 95

Historical and Conjunctural Causes 103

7 Apocalyptic Symbols: A Meditation 105

Tower 106

Dust and Ashes 108

Smoke 110

Apocalypse Right Now 114

8 Probing Evil 9/11 116

Revenge as "Blowback" 116

Dualism as Fundamentalism 124

Exclusion as Humiliation 134

Conclusion to Part Two: Theology in Big Letters 147

Part 3 9/12

9 Hope in an Age of Terror 151

God at Ground Zero and the Ground Zeroing of God 151

Portraits of Grace I 157

The End of Faith? 160

Theodicy Revisited 163

10 Pursuing the Personal 166

Zizioulas and the CappadocianContribution 167

Otherness and Relation 171

Participating in God 174

Perspectives on Perkhoresis 176

11 An Anatomy of Forgiveness 180

The Journey into the Experience of the Other 181

Remembering Righdy 185

A Call to Arms 188

General Conclusion: Theology That Re-members 195

Afterword 204

Notes 207

Bibliography 263

Index 279

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