Open AccessJob’s Suffering: A Hypostatic Cry
Author(s) -
Catherine Hyland Moon
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
lumen et vita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2329-1087
DOI - 10.6017/lv.v8i1.10502
Subject(s) - whirlwind , frame (networking) , philosophy , job loss , psychoanalysis , epistemology , psychology , aesthetics , sociology , computer science , economics , engineering , unemployment , mechanical engineering , telecommunications , economic growth
In this essay I will examine Thomas Aquinas’ and Gustavo Gutierrez’s respective commentaries on the Book of Job. I will look into how they reconcile Job, the exemplar of unmerited suffering, back to God. First I will analyze what the two theologians understand the central question of Job to be, then I will look into how they frame this question, how they interpret the speeches and the whirlwind, and then finally what they propose the answer to the suffering of the innocent to be.