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A Theology of Friendship
By Jeremy | November 27, 2006
What brought me to Job wasn’t the literary brilliance, nor the theological depth, but rather from a real need to know what to do – with the questions, the shock, the fears, the sense of loss, the confusion and disorientation. The circumstances of my daughter’s health – and the future ambiguities it presents – are a major departure from anything I ever thought my life would go. ... But I quickly began to discover that there was more to the Book of Job than Job’s engagement with God about his suffering. There is also Job’s conversation with his friends about his suffering. As Samuel Balentine argues:“The book of Job is about friendship. For all of its heavy hitting on such important theological topics as innocent suffering or the justice or injustice of God, it is the theology of friendship that provides the frames for the books central concerns.â€Â
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