Upon presenting the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace to Elie Wiesel, Egil Aarvick, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee, hailed him as "a messenger to mankind--not with a message of hate and revenge but with one of brotherhood and atonement." Elie Wiesel: Messenger to All Humanity, first published in 1983, echoes this theme and still affirms that message, a call to both Christians and Jews to face the tragedy of the Holocaust and begin again.

Robert McAfee Brown (1920-2001) was professor of religious studies at Stanford University and a Protestant member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Becoming a Messenger: An Impossible Necessity (a journey of the self)

2. Darkness That Eclipses Light (a moral journey - 1)

3. Light That Penetrates Darkness (a moral journey - 2)

4. From Auschwitz to Mount Moriah - And Return (an historical journey)

5. The Silence of God, and the Necessity of Contention (a theological journey)

6. Birkenau and Golgotha (challenges to a Christian journey)

7. The Ongoing Struggle of Light Against Darkness; or, "What Is There Left For Us To Do?" (a human journey)

8. "And Yet, And Yet ..." : A Small Measure of Victory (an unlikely journey)

Notes

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Appendix I

Appendix II

Index