Divinely Abused

A Philosophical Perspective on Job and His Kin
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8264-3588-0
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Verbin, Nehama

Verbin, N.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Chapter 1: What is Abuse?

1. Self-Worth
a. Self-Worth and Justification
b. Resentment and Self-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 Weil

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

Über Autor(innen)

N. Verbin is an Assistant Professor at Tel Aviv University and a senior research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.