Job. The Adventure of Suffering: Pain and Faith as Anthropological Characteristics – A Philosophical Reading

Abstract

Perhaps one of the most basic existential questions a person of faith must wrestle with is why bad things happen to good people. Perhaps therein lies the key question of every human being that places it in the topos of limit situations.
The book of Job is a story that is part of that type of existential experience. Job is a righteous man who responds faithfully to difficult trials that God imposes on him to test his faith. Job’s experience calls us to reflect on those questions that call us to recognize the causes of suffe- ring, anthropological fragility and the reasons to trust in God, beyond the moment when life seems unfair to us.