Tenebrae

Holy Week After the Holocaust

By Theresa Sanders
(Orbis Books, Paperback, 9781570756856, 222pp.)

Publication Date: December 2006

Categories: Christian Theology - General

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"What could Ash Wednesday mean after Auschwitz?" Tenebrae (Latin: "darkness"), a prayer service between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, commemorates the time Jesus spent in the tomb. It is a fitting and potent symbol for the moral darkness of the Holocaust, when the lives of six million Jews were snuffed out--many of them within earshot of Christian churches. After sixty years, the question remains: What responsibility do Christians still bear to rethink their symbols and theologies in light of this horror? In

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