Grace in Auschwitz with Jean-Pierre Fortin

Homebrewed Christianity · Apr 18, 2017 · 1h 17m

Jean-Pierre Fortin (professor at Loyola University in Chicago) is on the podcast to talk about his new book, Grace in Auschwitz. The book offers a constructive theology of grace in the wake of unprecedented evil. Unlike a book that tackles the problem of evil in the abstract, he does interviews and retellings of stories from Auschwitz, not to fix the problem of evil, but to develop a doctrine of grace, asking: How can God be brought to us through the experience of the survivors?

In one sense, it is a more honest look at Auschwitz, evil, and suffering, because it is in the lives of people…