Providence in the Book of Job

A scholarly work addressing the problem of theodicy - the search for God's mind as the author puts it - through an analysis of the Book of Job. It begins with a synopsis before moving on to introduce the personalities of the book and they way in which providence is understood in other books of the Old Testament. The rest of the book is devoted to a series of mediaeval commentaries by the greatest scholars of their day, struggling as we do to explain why bad things happen to good people. My own interest dates from Jung's 'Answer to Job' and his discussions with Fr Victor White. In this case, the author is trained as a physicist but has steeped himself deeply in the text and takes the reader along with him on his quest.