What answers to the monotheistic approach does the Book of Job provide? Is Job’s suffering justified?
1) From your reading this week, please summarize the main
difference in monotheistic religions and Eastern religions concerning
‘theodicy’? Which theodicy do you find most meaningful to you? Why?
2) What answers to the monotheistic approach does the Book of Job
provide? Is Job’s suffering justified? Is Elie Wiesel’s suffering in NIGHT
justified?
3) Which of the views on the causes and effects of evil works best
for you? Is evil essentially a deity/cosmogony problem or a human
problem? Are natural disasters (floods, famines, volcano eruptions,
earthquakes, Tsunamis, tornados, extreme weather events) and
human-caused disasters (wars, genocides, famines, climate change,
hunger, distribution of resources) also a God-problem? In other
words, what does the sacred, the Creator, the Creation have to
say about major causes of large-scale human suffering? Is such
suffering inevitable? Preventable? How does this discussion
impact religious world view?
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