Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-327) and index.

Prologue : flames in the darkness / David Patterson and John K. Roth -- 1. Fire and ashes : the "tempter-God," evil, and the shoah / Margaret Brearley -- In response / Britta Frede-Wenger -- In response / David Patterson -- In response / Margaret Brearley -- 2. Jean Amery : memories of evil and consequences for the representation of Jewish identity in Christian theology / Hannah Holtschneider -- In response / Peter J. Haas -- In response / John K. Roth -- In response / Hannah Holtschneider -- 3. Judaism in Protestant encounters with the shoah / Peter J. Haas -- In response / Henry F. Knight -- In response / Rochelle L. Millen -- In response / Peter J. Haas -- 4. Locating God : placing ourselves in a post-shoah world / Henry F. Knight -- In response / Margaret Brearley -- In response / Leonard Grob -- In response / Henry F. Knight -- 5. "Like pebbles on the seashore" : J. B. Soloveitchik on suffering / Rochelee L. Millen -- In response / Hannah Holtschneider -- In response / Jurgen Manemann -- In response / Rochelle L. Millen -- 6. "Good" Friday after Auschwitz? / Brita Frede-Wenger -- In response / Henry F. Knight -- In response / Rochelle L. Millen -- In response / Britta Frede-Wenger -- 7. If the good becomes the evil : antimonotheism in Germany after reunification and the problems of the doctrine of justification / Jurgen Manemann -- In response / David Patterson -- In response / Didier Pollefeyt -- In response / Jurgen Manemann -- 8. Some fundamental doubts about posing the question of theodicy in the post-Holocaust world / Leonard Grob -- In response / Margaret Brearley -- In response / Didier Pollefeyt -- In response / Leonard Grob -- 9. Horror Vacui : God and evil in/after Auschwitz / Didier Pollefeyt -- In response / Britta Frede-Wenger -- In response / Peter J. Haas -- In response / Didier Pollefeyt -- 10. Deliver us from evil? : Kuhn's prayer and the masters of death / John K. Roth -- In response / Leonard Grob -- In response / Juergen Manemann -- In response / John K. Roth -- 11. Seeking the fire in the ashes : a Chasidic accounting for evil from the midst of evil after the evil of Auschwitz / David Patterson -- In response / Hannah Holtschneider -- In response / John K. Roth -- In response / David Patterson -- Postscript : the disturbance of the witness / David Patterson and John K. Roth.