Divinely abused : a philosophical perspective on Job and his kin

Responsibility
Nehama Verbin.
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London : Continuum, ©2010.
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1 online resource (xvi, 162 pages)

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Verbin, N. (Nehama), 1968- author.

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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Preface--
  • Chapter 1: What is Abuse?--
  • 1. Self-Worth-- a. Self-Worth and Justification-- b. Resentment and Sell-Worth--
  • 2. Happiness-- a. The Socratic Conception-- b. The Maimonidean Conception-- c. The Wittgensteinian Conception--
  • 3. Power-- a. The Intuitive Paradigm-- b. The Moral Paradigm-- c. The Self-Restraint Paradigm--
  • Chapter 2: Divine Abuse--
  • 1. Job's Conception of Happiness-- a. The Worldly Conception-- b. The Moral Conception--
  • 2. Job's Conception of Self-Worth-- a. Divine Abuse: Humiliation and Elevation-- b. Resentment and Moral Hatred of God--
  • 3. Power and Power Relations-- a. Job's Conception of Power-- b. Job's Way of Exercising his Power--
  • Chapter 3: The Way Out: From Abuse to Suffering--
  • 1. Afflictions of Love and Love of Afflictions-- a. Afflictions of Love-- b. Love of Afflictions: The Sadist, the Masochist and the Slave--
  • 2. Providence and Intervention-- a. Providence as Intervention-- b. Maimonides-- c. Simone Well--
  • 3. Providence Lost-- a. Afflictions of Hate-- b. Malevolent Providence-- c. From Abuse to Suffering--
  • Chapter 4: Forgiveness--
  • 1. The Victim-- a. Harms, Wrongs and Hostile Emotions-- b. Resentment and Reason-- c. Overcoming Resentment--
  • 2. The Assailant-- a. Telling the Moral Story-- b. Telling the Biographical Story-- c. Telling the Same Story--
  • 3. Forgiveness-- a. Forgiveness without Reconciliation-- b. Reconciliation without Forgiveness-- c. Forgiveness and Reconciliation--
  • Chapter 5: Forgiving God--
  • 1. Protest-- a. Roth's Theodicy of Protest-- b. Blumenthal's Theology of Protest--
  • 2. Beyond Protest-- a. Protest in Context-- b. Beyond Protest--
  • 3. Forgiving God-- a. The Logical Space for Forgiveness-- b. Forgiving God-- c. Subsisting in Brokenness-- Conclusion-- Bibliography.
  • (source: Nielsen Book Data)
Summary
Divinely Abused engages with the logical features of the experience of divine abuse and the religious difficulties to which it gives rise. Taking Job's trial as a test case, Verbin explores the relation between Job's manner of understanding and responding to his misfortunes and the responses of others such as rabbi Aqiva, Kierkegaard and Simone Weil. She discusses the religious crisis to which the experience of divine abuse gives rise and the possibility of sustaining a minimal relationship with the God who is experienced as an abuser by means of forgiving God.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Bibliographic information

Publication date
2010
ISBN
9781441184931 (electronic bk.)
1441184937 (electronic bk.)
1283207478
9781283207478
9781441138569
1441138560
9780826435880
0826435882
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