The book of Job offers a very sophisticated reflection on God and on the manner in which one can speak of the divine. The opening prologue offers a critique of both the dialogues between Job and his friends, which can be characterized as a theological discourse about the reason for human suffering, and of God's monologues at the end of the book. This introduction instructs the reader that neither the friends' arguments nor God's revelation contain the full truth about Job and his suffering: Job suffers as the result of a heavenly test, about which the reader of the book is informed, but the human characters in the biblical book are not. In sum, the book of Job is a biblical witness to an approach towards theology that is very critical of affirmative statements about God.
Personen: Schmid, Konrad
Schmid, Konrad:
Theologie und Theologiekritik im Hiobbuch / Konrad Schmid, 2013. - S.161-173
Einheitssacht.: Neuer Atheismus