Milczenie Boga: przykłady żydowskiej i chrześcijańskiej teologii Holocaustu (Paul van Buren i Richard L. Rubenstein)
The Silence of God: Examples of Jewish and Christian Holocaust Theology (Paul van Buren and Richard L. Rubenstein)

Summary/Abstract: When considering the causes of secularization in the Western societies, one mustmention sociological and political consequences of both the World War II and Holocaust.Extermination of the Jewish nation prompted raising the question of “why did God allowAuschwitz?” Many Jewish and Christian theologians attempted to explain the moralcollapse in the time of Holocaust. Part of them was related to the so-called Death ofGod theology, the theological movement which interpreted a radical secularizationof the Western culture in many ways. The article discusses theological reflections of theChristian theologian Paul van Buren and the Jewish thinker Richard L. Rubenstein. Theyare considered to belong to the movement of the Death of God theology, though in bothcases such classification is not justified. Both interpret Holocaust in the perspectiveof God’s silence, and both search for new notions and meanings for God in the secularworld after Auschwitz.

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