Divinely Abused
A Philosophical Perspective on Job and his Kin
Divinely Abused
A Philosophical Perspective on Job and his Kin
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780826435880
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 11/04/2010
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
Divinely Abused engages with the logical features of the experience of divine abuse and the religious difficulties to which it gives rise. Taking Jobs trial as a test case, Verbin explores the relation between Jobs 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.
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.
