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Bob Rees, the Director for Mormon Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, joins Abbey and Madison around the fireside today to talk about the rare, radical, and challenging book of Job. This book is a theodicy which is a defense of God’s goodness in the face of the vast amount of suffering experienced by humans on Earth. It is drama, poetry, theology asking nearly unanswerable questions of God and the Universe. This serves as a good introduction to the spiritual idea of wildness and wilderness as it deals with deep moral responsibility. God’s strange answer to Job’s questions about his suffering is to take Job on a tour of the wild Earth and Universe. God seems to ask “yeah, but have you seen the whales and the ostrich?”
Links:
Rene Girard — Mimetic Theory
Job and the Comforting Whirlwind
