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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 1988 3(4):443-455; doi:10.1093/hgs/3.4.443
© 1988 by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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‘Faith, Ethics and the Holocaust’

THE SHOAH: ITS CHALLENGES FOR RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR ETHICS*

JOHN T. PAWLIKOWSKI, O.S.M., Ph.D.

Catholic Theological Union Chicago

The primal ethical issue after the Shoah is how to respond to the sense of human liberation inherent in the Nazi world view. We need a new understanding of the God—Humanity relationship which can prevent humanity's creativity from becoming the destructive force of the Nazi era. Many Jewish thinkers have suggested readjusting our understanding of the covenant with God, which must inform Christian ethicists' work. Yet, these thinkers have left man too much on his own, without the sense of a compelling Parent God as the foundation for an adequate post-Holocaust moral ethos with worship as its focus for a genuine encounter with God. The return to history forced by the Shoah must be accompanied by ethics grounded in solidarity with those marginalized by oppressive political forces, and not only on the exercise of power for survival.

*Presented at the ‘Remembering for the Future’ Conference, Oxford, 10–13 July 1988.


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