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Auschwitz and Absolution: The Case of the Commandant and the Confessor

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Orbis Books
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

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Few people know that in the face of his execution, the notorious Rudolf Höss, the Commandant for Auschwitz, met with a Polish Jesuit priest, Fr. Wladyslaw Lohn. Höss made a confession to Fr. Lohn for approximately four hours, and from Fr. Lohn he received communion. This compelling account of a secret and sacramental meeting not only tells what happened, but offers what amounts to either a critical challenge to, or celebration of, Christian notions of forgiveness.

We have access to Höss's confession by way of selections from his published memoirs. Fr. Lohn said almost nothing about his encounter and certainly nothing about the confession itself. In addition to writing a thorough introduction to this encounter, in order to contemplate the priest's thoughts, James Bernauer has composed a work of imagination, a diary of how this Jesuit might have scrutinized this meeting. Bernauer's hope is that, in addition to giving a sense of a historical encounter, the reader will perform their own imaginative reflection on the issues. Throughout the work, the limitations on religious absolution of sin are heightened by recall of alternative Christian practices (historical and contemporary), as well as Dietrich Bonhoeffer's warnings about "cheap grace."

Auschwitz and Absolution: The Case of the Commandant and the Confessor and Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart: Meditations for the Restless Soul
Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart: Meditations for the Restless SoulAuschwitz and Absolution: The Case of the Commandant and the Confessor
  • Author

    James Bernauer

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Orbis Books

  • Published

    December 2023

  • Weight

    227g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781626985292

  • ISBN-10

    1626985294

  • Eden Code

    6170866

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