A Serious Man: Questions For Further Study
13. If Canada is heaven, is North Dakota hell, Vanity Fair, the place of temptation and damnation? Isn't Fargo in North Dakota? What would Marge Gunderson say about this?
View ArticleThey Who See God’s Hand: The Tree of Life as an “Upbuilding Discourse”
[Ed. note: A very, very welcome guest post from Nicholas Olson] The very moment everything was taken away from Job, he knew it was the Lord who’d taken it away. He turned from the passing shows of...
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Virtual Insanity: Christian Ethics, Biotechnology, and Posthuman Evolution
he earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. —Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra Ours is a world of our own making. The emergence of technologies that...
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A Serious Man: Questions For Further Study
1. What is that quote at the start of the film? From a non-Jewish source? How does it shed light on the Jewish world of the film? Specifically, how does it relate to the theology of the first rabbi? 2....
View ArticleO God, Where Art Thou? A Review of A Serious Man
In the song “Placebo Headwound,” from the Flaming Lips 1995 album Clouds Taste Metallic, Wayne Coyne sings, “If God hears all my questions / how come there’s never an answer?” This question seemed so...
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Gird Up Your Loins, Haiti: A Lesson in Theodicy from Job
One cannot evade the question of God, especially in matters such as the earthquake in Haiti or Chile and the devastation that has followed. Disasters, both natural and unnatural, have a way of opening...
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The “Righteous Rich” in the Old Testament
Much is written and preached about the problem of poverty from a biblical perspective, and much of what is written and preached acknowledges the fact that most poverty does not just happen—it is...
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They Who See God’s Hand: The Tree of Life as an “Upbuilding Discourse”
[Ed. note: A very, very welcome guest post from Nicholas Olson] The very moment everything was taken away from Job, he knew it was the Lord who’d taken it away. He turned from the passing shows of...
View ArticleWhat’s Love Got to Do with It? Theodicy, Trauma, and Divine Love
Recently, I sat in a circle of students who had just read Eleanor Stump’s chapter on the book of Job in her seminal work on theodicy, Wandering in Darkness. In that chapter, Stump walks the reader...
View ArticleNavigating the Crisis of Movement: Rupture, Repetition, and New Life
To speak of trauma is always to speak too late. Trauma is something we do not see coming. Consider philosopher of neuroplasticity Catherine Malabou’s definition: “The word ‘trauma’ in Greek means...
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