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Job's Journey: Stations of Suffering

Job's Journey: Stations of Suffering

Paperback

Series: Critical Studies in the Hebrew Bible, Book 7

Ancient History GeneralBible Studies

ISBN10: 1575063999
ISBN13: 9781575063997
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: Nov 6 2015
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

From the Introduction: The book of Job does not promote silence about God because we cannot say anything about him. Otherwise, this book would never have been written. But the book of Job does bid farewell to certain types of theology--and we need not bemoan their loss: theology as the wisdom of the world projected into heaven; theology as pious reflection on a higher being that then mistakes traditional or innovative ideas about God entirely for God himself; theology that purports to communicate direct revelation from God. The book of Job distrusts and disbelieves all this to its core. Instead, it states clearly that this is not God; these are only graven images. Such fundamental criticism of all pseudo-theology is--and here we can only agree with the book of Job--not the end but the very beginning of theology.

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