Job Vol. 18B is the final volume in Professor David Cline's monumental study of Job. This volume is devoted entirely to the response of the Lord from the tempest to Job and the replies of Job (Job 38-42), presenting the Lord's own explanation of his manifold purpose in creation …
Messengers of God: biblical portraits and legends
by Wiesel, Marion, Wiesel, Elie
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Creation beyond measure / Michael Hardt -- Preface to the 2002 edition -- The difference of Job -- Of the absoluteness of the contingent -- The adversary and the avenger -- The chaos of being -- The dispositif of the Messiah -- The constitution of power -- Ethics as creation -- …
Creation beyond measure / Michael Hardt -- Preface to the 2002 edition -- The difference of Job -- Of the absoluteness of the contingent -- The adversary and the avenger -- The chaos of being -- The dispositif of the Messiah -- The constitution of power -- Ethics as creation -- …
A reinterpretation of the biblical story that envisions God as no longer a remote and transcendent judge but as a humanized redeemer or avenger, an activist, and revolutionary.
A reinterpretation of the biblical story that envisions God as no longer a remote and transcendent judge but as a humanized redeemer or avenger, an activist, and revolutionary.
Antonio Negri offers a Marxist interpretation of the Biblical story of Job. A commentary by Roland Boer considers this in comparison with the traditional readings, in which the story is an affirmation of divine transcendence.
How can suffering and injustice be reconciled with the idea that God is good, that he loves humans and is merciful to them? Job's question runs through the history of the three monotheistic religions. Time and again, philosophers, theologians, poets, prophets and laypersons have…
This book is about the relationship between God and the world's evil. It proposes a religious, Job-like approach to evil that does not approach evil through the problem of evil and accepts that both good and evil are given by God.
Religious thinkers in the Christian theistic tradition have tried to resolve the problem of evil-how a wholly good and omnipotent God could allow there to be evil-by offering a theodicy. This book considers three traditional theodicies and the objections they have elicited: Leib…