Conceptions of God, Freedom, and Ethics in African American and Jewish Theology (Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice) Hardcover by K. Buhring (Palgrave MacMillan)

This book does an outstanding job reconciling the seemingly irreconcilable and explaining the seemingly inexplicable in the context of the Holocaust and slavery. Buhring attributes the responsibility for suffering to humans and places the onus on us to challenge and overcome such atrocities. Essentially, constraints on divine intervention are what enable free will. This book is a call to action - instead of holding God accountable for suffering and relying on God to end it, Buhring explains that suffering is man-made and that we should use our God-given free will and conscience to combat it. Although academic in nature, this is a powerful read on a fascinating subject that has universal and real life impact on all of us.