[October 2000 journal entry]
I am again giving considerable thought examining the story/play Job from a ‘J-E-P-D’ critical approach (esp., to the ‘God’ language of the ‘scrapheap’ Job and his three close friends). I have attempted to critique all theological reflection in the story/play by the results of modern critical scholarship consistently and persistently over the past twenty-five years (i.e., from my graduate school studies forward to today). This hermeneutic task is a critical/pivotal distinction that separates a ‘religious’ from a ‘non-religious’ approach to spirituality and ethics for me.
I am again giving considerable thought examining the story/play Job from a ‘J-E-P-D’ critical approach (esp., to the ‘God’ language of the ‘scrapheap’ Job and his three close friends). I have attempted to critique all theological reflection in the story/play by the results of modern critical scholarship consistently and persistently over the past twenty-five years (i.e., from my graduate school studies forward to today). This hermeneutic task is a critical/pivotal distinction that separates a ‘religious’ from a ‘non-religious’ approach to spirituality and ethics for me.
