Job: Second Thoughts in the Land of UZ
“The Book of Job is, ultimately, not about what it means that humans suffer. It is about what it means to be human at all when God is seen truly to be God. … This great text stands over against the prevalent religious impulse to fabricate a wishful picture of the world, to imagine the sort of God wh...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1988
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Theology today
Year: 1988, Volume: 45, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-20 |
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| Summary: | “The Book of Job is, ultimately, not about what it means that humans suffer. It is about what it means to be human at all when God is seen truly to be God. … This great text stands over against the prevalent religious impulse to fabricate a wishful picture of the world, to imagine the sort of God who would rule benignly over such a world, and then to bow down in worship before this projection of our own sense of moral order.” |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057368804500102 |