[Buddha-l] Buddhism and blasphemy

[John Whalen-Bridge]

S. Hayes:  "Surely, it is impossible to harm God, as that being is
usually conceived."

I don't know the material, but for anyone interested: post-Holocaust
theologians such as Massimi Guiliani might differ. Some refs from the
(unpublished) essay I've looked at that looks into such questions:

Giuliani, Massimo.  Theological Implications of the Shoah: Caesura and
Continuum as Hermeneutic Paradigms of a Jewish Theodicy.  New York:
Peter Lang, 2002.

Jonas, Hans.  "The Concept of God After Auschwitz."  Mortality and
Morality: A Search for Good After Auschwitz.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern
UP, 1996.

Pinnock, Sarah Katherine.  Beyond Theodicy: Jewish and Christian
Continental Thinkers Respond to the Holocaust.  Albany, NY: SUNY Press,
2002.

Rubenstein, Richard L.  After Auschwitz: History, Theology and
Contemporary Judaism.  1966.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U.P., 1992.   


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