Kenneth Paul Fye Ph D

The Almost Indifferent God Kenneth Paul Fye Ph D

Job is a man of impeccable piety and morality, but the foundation of his faith has been stripped away with the express permission of the God Job worships and calls his Redeemer. Until the dramatic denouement at the end it remains a open question whether Job will be able to retain his faith and trust in God. 3,000 years before the Holocaust, the unknown author of Job wrestled with the agonies of faith destroying suffering with more passion and anguish than any author in literature until Melville took up the same topic in Moby Dick. Melville called his literary Leviathan the "Job whale"; "Who wrote the first account of our Leviathan?" he asked. "Who but mighty Job!" Like Job, Melville's tormented captain wants to know, "Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?"