Nehama VerbinDivinely Abused
A Philosophical Perspective on Job and His Kin
Preface
Chapter 1: What is Abuse?
1. Self-Worth
a. Self-Worth and Justification
b. Resentment and Self-Worth
2. Happiness
a. The Socratic Conception
b. The Maimonidean Conception
c. The Wittgensteinian Conception
3. Power
a. The Intuitive Paradigm
b. The Moral Paradigm
c. The Self-Restraint Paradigm
Chapter 2: Divine Abuse
1. Job's Conception of Happiness
a. The Worldly Conception
b. The Moral Conception
2. Job's Conception of Self-Worth
a. Divine Abuse: Humiliation and Elevation
b. Resentment and Moral Hatred of God
3. Power and Power Relations
a. Job's Conception of Power
b. Job's Way of Exercising his Power
Chapter 3: The Way Out: From Abuse to Suffering
1. Afflictions of Love and Love of Afflictions
a. Afflictions of Love
b. Love of Afflictions: The Sadist, the Masochist and the Slave
2. Providence and Intervention
a. Providence as Intervention
b. Maimonides
c. Simone Weil
3. Providence Lost
a. Afflictions of Hate
b. Malevolent Providence
c. From Abuse to Suffering
Chapter 4: Forgiveness
1. The Victim
a. Harms, Wrongs and Hostile Emotions
b. Resentment and Reason
c. Overcoming Resentment
2. The Assailant
a. Telling the Moral Story
b. Telling the Biographical Story
c. Telling the Same Story
3. Forgiveness
a. Forgiveness without Reconciliation
b. Reconciliation without Forgiveness
c. Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Chapter 5: Forgiving God
1. Protest
a. Roth's Theodicy of Protest
b. Blumenthal's Theology of Protest
2. Beyond Protest
a. Protest in Context
b. Beyond Protest
3. Forgiving God
a. The Logical Space for Forgiveness
b. Forgiving God
c. Subsisting in Brokenness
Conclusion
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