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Sutherland, Martin (2001) “Bringing Their Gods in Their Hands”: Job and Absolute Orthodoxy. Pacifica, 14 (2). pp. 144-158. ISSN 1030-570X
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Abstract
Orthodoxies of all sorts can assume an unhealthy power. This essay proposes a reading of Job that discovers a challenge to the role of dogma. The story demonstrates the failure of the friends’ rigid adherence to the sapiential orthodoxy of retribution and reward. It is suggested also that a similar censure of religious practice is implied. Job’s integrity is not confirmed through wisdom or cultic ritual but in meeting YHWH. An essential twist is that, if placed within a framework of encounter, or-thodoxy can, after all, play a valid role.
| Item Type: | Published Articles |
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| Repository Version: | Published Version |
| Keywords (separated by commas): | Job, Orthodoxy, retribution, reward |
| Fields of Research: | 22 Philosophy and Religious Studies > 2204 Religion and Religious Studies > 220401 Christian Studies (incl. Biblical Studies and Church History) 22 Philosophy and Religious Studies > 2204 Religion and Religious Studies > 220405 Religion and Society |
| Socio-Economic Objective: | C Society > 95 Cultural Understanding > 9504 Religion and Ethics > 950404 Religion and Society |
| Type of Activity: | Pure Basic Research |
| Subject Area(s): | B - Old Testament C - Systematic Theology |
| Association with MCD: | Pacifica |
| Depositing User: | Cate Headey |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jan 2011 03:09 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jan 2011 03:09 |
| URI: | http://repository.mcd.edu.au/id/eprint/769 |
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