God Of Sense And Traditions Of Non-sense
by Sigve K. Tonstad /
2016 / English / PDF
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One hundred taxis lined up on Church Street in Oslo on November 26,
1942, deployed in order to round up the city's Jews and send them
to Auschwitz. This reality anchors God of Sense and Traditions of
Non-Sense: it is theology from a Holocaust perspective. The brash
Elihu excoriating Job for his insistence that he is owed an
explanation for the calamities that have befallen him. This is the
book's opening salvo. Job speaking of a God of sense, Elihu and
Job's three friends inaugurating a tradition of non-sense: this is
the existential and theological predicament. The problem of finite
suffering in this life addressed in the theological tradition with
the prospect of infinite, endless suffering, in this book described
as a key element in Traditions of Non-Sense. Back to the millions
of Jews, among them 188 women and 42 children from Oslo, deported,
gassed, and cremated--in God of Sense this is not seen as a problem
that defeats belief, but as the reality that demands a religious
and theological account of human existence.
One hundred taxis lined up on Church Street in Oslo on November 26,
1942, deployed in order to round up the city's Jews and send them
to Auschwitz. This reality anchors God of Sense and Traditions of
Non-Sense: it is theology from a Holocaust perspective. The brash
Elihu excoriating Job for his insistence that he is owed an
explanation for the calamities that have befallen him. This is the
book's opening salvo. Job speaking of a God of sense, Elihu and
Job's three friends inaugurating a tradition of non-sense: this is
the existential and theological predicament. The problem of finite
suffering in this life addressed in the theological tradition with
the prospect of infinite, endless suffering, in this book described
as a key element in Traditions of Non-Sense. Back to the millions
of Jews, among them 188 women and 42 children from Oslo, deported,
gassed, and cremated--in God of Sense this is not seen as a problem
that defeats belief, but as the reality that demands a religious
and theological account of human existence.
