Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Types of Approaches to Holocaust Suffering Practical Responses as Alternatives to Theodicy -- Existential Encounter with Evil Gabriel Marcel's Response to Suffering as a Trial -- Dialogical Faith Martin Buber's I-Thou Response to Suffering and Its Meaning -- Marxist Theory and Practice Scientific and Humanist Marxism -- Faith as Hope in History Ernst Bloch and Political Post-Holocaust Theology -- Solidarity and Resistance Johann Baptist Metz's Theodicy-Sensitive Response to Suffering -- Pragmatics, Existential and Political Comparison, Contrast, and Complementarity -- Beyond Theodicy Evaluating Theodicy from a Practical Perspective -- Back Matter -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.