{"product_id":"auschwitz-and-absolution-the-case-of-the-commandant-and-the-confessor-paperback","title":"Auschwitz and Absolution: The Case of the Commandant and the Confessor - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Bernauer\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew people know that in the face of his execution, the notorious Rudolf Hs, the Commandant for Auschwitz, met with a Polish Jesuit priest, Fr. Wladyslaw Lohn. Hs made a confession to Fr. Lohn for approximately four hours, and from Fr. Lohn he received communion. This compelling account of a secret and sacramental meeting not only tells what happened but seventeen Christian and Jewish scholars offer a critical challenge to, or celebration of Christian notions of forgiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWe have access to Hs's confession by way of selections from his published memoirs. Fr. Lohn said almost nothing about his encounter and certainly nothing about the confession itself. In addition to writing a thorough introduction to this encounter, in order to contemplate the priest's thoughts, James Bernauer has composed a work of imagination, a diary of how this Jesuit might have scrutinized this meeting. Bernauer's hope is that, in addition to giving a sense of a historical encounter, the reader will perform their own imaginative reflection on the issues. Throughout the work, the limitations on religious absolution of sin are heightened by recall of alternative Christian practices (historical and contemporary), as well as Dietrich Bonhoeffer's warnings about \"cheap grace.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Bernauer, SJ, \u003c\/b\u003e is Emeritus Kraft Family Professor at Boston College where he was in the Philosophy Department. He was also director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning. His fields of interest include Holocaust Studies, German Jewry, and the philosophies of Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eHe has published many essays for many volumes including \"A Catholic Conversation with Hannah Arendt\" in \u003ci\u003eFriends on the Way: Jesuits Encounter Contemporary Judaism\u003c\/i\u003e and \"Philosophizing after the Holocaust\" for \u003ci\u003eJesuit Postmodern: Scholarship, Vocation, and Identity in the 21st Century\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 08, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759114682656,"sku":"9781626985292","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1d89856be2738b56d238c3812779d29c.webp?v=1780142759","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/auschwitz-and-absolution-the-case-of-the-commandant-and-the-confessor-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}