Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Characterizing Religious Experience
- Part II Religious Experience in Traditional Monotheism
- 4 Illumined by Meaning
- 5 Religious Experience in Early Christianity
- 6 Religious Experience in Traditional Islam
- Part III Religious Experience Outside Traditional Monotheism
- Part IV Prominent Themes and Challenges
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
4 - Illumined by Meaning
Religious Experience in the Book of Job
from Part II - Religious Experience in Traditional Monotheism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 June 2020
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Characterizing Religious Experience
- Part II Religious Experience in Traditional Monotheism
- 4 Illumined by Meaning
- 5 Religious Experience in Early Christianity
- 6 Religious Experience in Traditional Islam
- Part III Religious Experience Outside Traditional Monotheism
- Part IV Prominent Themes and Challenges
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
Summary
Wettstein examines religious experience from the ancient Jewish perspective of the book of Job, in particular its whirlwind passage where Job is left not with a full explanation of God's ways but instead with a poetic illumination of meaning. Job receives a vision from God that can free him from his own suffering by redirecting him to some joy-enhancing features of the world that also bears crushing evil unexplained by humans.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience , pp. 99 - 115Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
References
Alter, Robert. The Wisdom Books: A Translation with Commentary. London: W.W. Norton and Company, 2010, p. 8.Google Scholar
Jung, Carl Gustav. Answer to Job. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1958. Translated by R. F. C. Hull. Extracted from Vol. 11 of Collected Works of C. G. Jung.Google Scholar
The Book of Job. Translated by Mitchell, Stephen (abridged). New York: HarperPerennial, 1992.Google Scholar