Holocaust Remembrance Day
Date and time:
11 April 2010 - 10:30am - 11:30am
"Holocaust Remembrance Day: Commemorating the Victims and Learning the Lessons of Shoah"
presented by Katharina Von Kellenbach, professor of religious studies at St. Mary's College of Maryland. --
Many Nazi perpetrators rejoined Christian churches while incarcerated in Allied internment camps and West German prisons after 1945. Von Kellenbach will ask whether the Christian proclamation of the forgiveness of sins succeeded in facilitating moral awakening and spiritual transformation in the hearts and minds of Nazi perpetrators. While many perpetrators professed a deeply held faith in Christ, few felt any repentance for their genocidal actions or expressed compassion for their former victims. She will conclude that Christian understandings of forgiveness must move beyond their traditionally exclusive focus on the relationship between God and sinner and integrate the victims of human sin, violence and destruction into its practice of reconciliation.
Learn more about the guest speaker at http://faculty.smcm.edu/kvonkellenbach/.
