...Irving Greenberg has given us this guide: "Let us offer, then, as a working principle the following. No statement, theological or otherwise, should be...be credible in the presence of burning children." Narrator There are times also, for silence, silence in the face of the awesome proportions of the tragedy...

...Irving Greenberg has given us this guide: "Let us offer, then, as a working principle the following. No statement, theological or otherwise, should be...be credible in the presence of burning children." Narrator There are times also, for silence, silence in the face of the awesome proportions of the tragedy...

...formulate what he calls a "working principle," what I have called the "criterion of the burning children": "No statement, theological or otherwise, should be...made that would not be credible in the presence of the burning children" (23). 8 Now this is a bit confusing. Which is the adequacy criterion for theological...

...theological talk that cannot meet the test of Auschwitz. We will accept Irving Greenberg's working principle: "No statement, theological or otherwise, should be...made that would not be credible in the presence of the burning children." 38 Greenberg refers to the roughly one and a half million Jewish children who...

...challenged by Rabbi Irving Greenberg's statement in 1974 concerning the Holocaust: "After the Holocaust, no statement, theological or otherwise, should be made that would not be credible in the presence of the burning children." If this is taken seriously, then the cross at Auschwitz should be removed and...

...(Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992), 15. Fasching has found inspiration in Irving Greenberg's warning that "no statement, theological or otherwise, should be...be credible in the presence of burning children." 4. "Christians and Jews After Auschwitz," in The Emergent Church, 19. 5. The Crucifixion of the Jews,...

...ethical than God. Given the power to make a world, we would never have made this one. —Catherine Madsen No statement, theological or otherwise, should be...biblical promise by contemporary fulfillment. How can one speak of God with integrity? —Irving Greenberg To submit blindly to God... would be to diminish...

...theologian, Greenberg, thinks that (Christian) theology has to measure itself against a new principle: "No statement, theological or otherwise, should be...made that would not be credible in the presence of the burning children."" If, from the application of such a touchstone, it appears that Christianity,...

...Greenberg (1977: 23) offers the following as a working principle for discourse after the Holocaust: "No statement, theological or otherwise, should be...made that would not be credible in the presence of the burning children." Given this criteria, there is no speech adequate. Perhaps Greenberg, too, was...

...life and thought In discussing theology and ethics after the Holocaust, Irving Greenberg suggests that "no statement, theological or otherwise, should be...made that would not be credible in the presence of the burning children. "'^ If so, then the rekindled Sabbath candles should evoke not only the liberation...