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Judaism: Torah, Talmud and Tradition

The Tremendum

A Theological Interpretation of the Holocaust

by Arthur A. Cohen

A philosophical theology of the Holocaust by an American novelist and theologian. Cohen describes the death camps as the tremendum, an abyss of evil, and argues for a conception of God who does not intervene in history but is present in human freedom.

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