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Out of the Whirlwind: Creation Theology in the Book of Job by Kathryn Schifferdecker (Paperback, 2008)

The book of Job is a complex, sophisticated treatment of the problem of undeserved suffering. It is also a sustained meditation on creation, on humanity's place in creation, and on God's ordering of creation. In this study, Kathryn Schifferdecker offers a close literary and theological reading of the book of Job - particularly of the speeches of God at the end of the book - in order to articulate its creation theology, which is particularly pertinent in our environmentally-conscious age.After all of Job's agonized questioning, God's answer does t directly address Job's questions about undeserved suffering or divine justice. Instead, the divine speeches take Job on a God's-eye tour of creation in all its beauty and complexity. In extraordinarily detailed and beautiful poetry, the divine speeches show Job that the world is radically n-anthropocentric, that there exist wild places and animals whose value has thing to do with their usefulness to humanity, and that God delights in the freedom of God's creatures. This vision of the divine speeches enables Job to move out of despair into renewed participation in God's often-dangerous but beautiful world.This creation theology of Job, virtually unique in the Bible, has much to say to us today, as we struggle theologically and politically with the issues of environmental degradation and humanity's relationship to the natural world.

Spine
15mm
Series Part/Volume Number
Number 58
Series Title
Harvard Theological Studies
Author Biography
Kathryn Schifferdecker Is Assistant Professor of Old Testament, Luther Seminary.
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Author(s)
Kathryn Schifferdecker
Date of Publication
10/10/2008
Subject
Christianity: Bibles & Liturgy
Imprint
Harvard Divinity School Theological Studies
Genre
Christianity: Bibles & Liturgy
Country of Publication
United States

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