So then, what is our response in a world where suffering is often met with a disinterested look and the idea that it is generally, “for your own good?” How can we challenge the common moral imagination which suggests an utterly teleological approach to suffering? It is my belief that it can only happen by … Continue reading »
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Conflicting Moral Imaginations: Job, His Friends, and Suffering, Part 4
If you haven’t been reading this series of posts, then this one might still be interesting. I try to interact with popular culture and the recent Batman movie’s portrayal of suffering. Recently on the History Channel, there has been a television show entitled, Batman Unmasked: the Psychology of the Dark Knight. Various psychologists and experts … Continue reading »
Conflicting Moral Imaginations: Job, His Friends, and Suffering, Part 3
Job responds out of a moral imagination shaped by the bitter and difficult experience of crushing suffering. The sheer terror of these events shakes Job’s moral imagination to its core. We might even ask whether Job’s moral imagination was the reason he was chosen or if it was shaped by the sheer force of his … Continue reading »
Conflicting Moral Imaginations: Job, His Friends, and Suffering, Part 2
Job’s friends, in Newsom’s argument, aren’t simply the “bad guys” who come in from the outside to blast Job with accusations of wickedness. They are, like us, holistically formed by the stories and narratives of the culture in which they reside. Newsom shows how they seek to resist turmoil by imposing very particular narrative structures … Continue reading »
Conflicting Moral Imaginations: Job, His Friends, and Suffering, Part 1
In the next few posts, I’m going to post a paper I wrote as the final for my Job Exegesis paper at Drew University this summer. It will be broken into a series of posts over the next few days. Hope you enjoy a subject that really challenged and stretched my own imagination and understanding. … Continue reading »
