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3 The Crucified God of Compassion

What insight of God emerged on the European continent during World War II?

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Theodicy failed
A term from the Enlightenment period to justify Gods ways in a painful world. How to reconcile:
Jewish people deserved punishment? Suffering forms souls in virtue? What about survivors with physical, psychological, spiritual struggle?

Reconciling a loving, powerful God with theodicy trivializes evil.

European theologianss work affected theologys dealing with massive suffering.

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Where is God?

Jurgan Moltmann, Dorothee Soelle, Johann Baptist Metz

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Jurgan Moltmann: A theology of the cross

A theology which does not speak of god in the sign of the one who was abandoned and crucified would have nothing to say to us

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Dorothee Soelle:
In the light of Auschwitz, the assumption of the omnipotence of God seemed a heresy.

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Johann Baptist Metz

Theology can no longer do its job, talk about God, with its back turned to Auschwitz Examine Godquestion from the depths of suffering

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What is the suffering they addressed?

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What is the result of avoiding, particularly among young, suffering beyond immediate circle?
Boredom

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Stagnation
Inability to experience intense joy Apathy

Massive human suffering, and middle-class attempt to ignore it

Young Germans used the term: Political Theology Polis: the city Connect speech about God with the polis.

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God of overwhelming pathos

Abraham Heschel investigates the prophets:
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Their divine care for the world as pathos In their prophet texts, god is a God of pathos Gods loving care in dynamic relation with Israel

God of pathos surfacing in postHolocaust political theology

the Crucified God The being of God is self-giving love The cross opens up a great fissure
The Father abandoning The Son being abandoning Each willing to do this for the love of us

cross reveals Gods inner nature: self-giving love capable of suffering

Jurgan Moltmann

Dorothee Soelle: on suffering

What is her journey through the three theological positions? Divine power is the silent cry of life in the midst of suffering

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Johann Baptist Metz: on Remembering

Do this in remembrance of me -at the center of Christian life is memory of life, passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ Keeping the story alive impels people of faith to live meaningful lives through action

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Johann Metz on Lamenting

Crying out to God, protest, lament, shout indignation Suffering drives us toward protesting: How long, O Lord?

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What trail has post-Holocaust European political theology blazed?

4 Liberating God of Life

Context
Oscar Romero, Medellin (1968), Puebla (1979), Puebla document, option for the poor.

Reasoning
Where does liberation theology takes it cues from in the Hebrew bible? In the New Testament? What is the realization of God in liberation theology? What is the role of the poor? What is the praxis? Jon Sobrino, Ignacio Ellacuria,

Challenges
What is the central mission of the Church? What spirituality emerges?