Hitler, Jesus, and Our Common Humanity: A Jewish Survivor Interprets Life, History, and the Gospels - Couverture rigide

Longenecker, Bruce W

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 149822265X ISBN 13 : 9781498222655

Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2014

Synopsis

This book follows the journey of a Jew who fled Nazi Germany but could not exorcise its evils from his theological and literary imagination. Having spent his early years trying to escape from his encounters with Nazism, Rolf Gompertz spent his later years trying to interpret the contours of evil that he had experienced in Hitler's Germany. The spiritual journey of Rolf Gompertz offers intrigue, instruction, and challenge. It is the story of how a small Jewish boy, cowering under the talons of prejudice and protected only by the love of his parents, emerged to craft a life that directly refuted the ideology that propped up the power structures of Nazi Germany. Along the way, Gompertz came to recognize in the folds of the Christian Gospels the story of another Jew who had stood in opposition to a similar configuration of ideology and power. In retelling that story as a committed Jew, Gompertz offered a robust "response to Hitler"--a refutation of the malevolent forces that seek to dismantle "our common humanity."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bruce W. Longenecker is Professor of New Testament and holds the W. W. Melton Chair of Religion at Baylor University. His most recent books include Remember the Poor: Paul, Poverty, and the Greco-Roman World (2010) and Hearing the Silence: Jesus on the Edge and God in the Gap--Luke 4 in Narrative Perspective (2012).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 149822265X
• ISBN 13: 9781498222655
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 202
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible