We find ourselves put to the test : a reading of the Book of Job /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Crooks, James, 1959- author.
Imprint:Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12019553
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:9780773554375
0773554378
9780773554382
0773554386
9780773553156
0773553150
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"The question of whether the world we inhabit offers us, at bottom, hospitality or indifference is central to the spiritual literature of all cultures. We Find Ourselves Put to the Test: A Reading of the Book of Job returns to the biblical text to explore the enduring relevance of that question and its philosophical dimensions. Beginning with the puzzle of Job's first words (he is famously both stoic and nihilistic in the face of his losses) it explores the contradictions of suffering as the lived experience dramatized in the dialogue between Job and his friends. How is it that the friends' attempt to comfort Job by constructing a rational explanation of his misfortune devolves so seamlessly into blaming the victim? How is it that Job's own renunciation of life at the nadir of his pain converts, against all expectation, into an intellectual patience that outlasts the advocates of rational explanation? We Find Ourselves Put to the Test gives us a portrait of the suffering protagonist looking into the heart of a creation that is, by necessity, indifferent and hospitable. It provides a reading that goes beyond exegesis by using The Book of Job to model the possibilities of personal engagement with the text, suggesting a way of reading that is animated by a consideration of the reader's narratives and communities, the limits of his or her own understanding, and ultimately, the possibility of an encounter with the holy."--
Other form:Print version:Crooks, James, 1959- We find ourselves put to the test.: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018
Print version: Crooks, James, 1959- We find ourselves put to the test. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2018] 0773553150 9780773553156