A Moral Reckoning

A Moral Reckoning

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Author: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Format: Hardback

Number of Pages: 384


Daniel Jonah Goldhagen cuts through the historical and moral fog to lay out the full extent of the Catholic Church's involvement in the Holocaust, aiming to transform a narrow discussion fixated on Pope Pius XII into the long-overdue investigation of the Church throughout Europe. He argues that the Church's and the Pope's complicity in the persecution of the Jews was much deeper than has been understood and that the Church's leaders were fully aware of the persecutions. They did not speak out and urge resistance. Instead, they supported many aspects of the persecution. Some clergy even took part in the mass murder. But Goldhagen goes further. He develops a precise way for assessing the Church and its clergy's culpability, which was more extensive and varied than has been supposed. He then shows that the Church has, even according to its own doctrine, an unacknowledged duty of repair. He explores it, analyses the Church's tactics of evasion, and delineates all that the Church must do to repair the harm it inflicted on Jews, and to heal itself.
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.

Author: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Format: Hardback

Number of Pages: 384


Daniel Jonah Goldhagen cuts through the historical and moral fog to lay out the full extent of the Catholic Church's involvement in the Holocaust, aiming to transform a narrow discussion fixated on Pope Pius XII into the long-overdue investigation of the Church throughout Europe. He argues that the Church's and the Pope's complicity in the persecution of the Jews was much deeper than has been understood and that the Church's leaders were fully aware of the persecutions. They did not speak out and urge resistance. Instead, they supported many aspects of the persecution. Some clergy even took part in the mass murder. But Goldhagen goes further. He develops a precise way for assessing the Church and its clergy's culpability, which was more extensive and varied than has been supposed. He then shows that the Church has, even according to its own doctrine, an unacknowledged duty of repair. He explores it, analyses the Church's tactics of evasion, and delineates all that the Church must do to repair the harm it inflicted on Jews, and to heal itself.
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