The Book of Job and Pastoral Intervention in Crisis
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Job’s Complaints in Modern Times
2.1.1. Consequences of Social Engineering
“The waiting room [Simbirsk railway station], the corridor, every foot thickly covered with people, sprawling, seated, crouched in every imaginable position. If one looks closely, he sees that these filthy rags are swarming with vermin. The typhus stricken grovel and shiver in their fever, their babies with them. Nursing babies have lost their voices and are no longer able to cry. Every day more than twenty dead are carried away, but it is not possible to remove all of them. Sometimes corpses remain among the living for more than five days…”
“The horrors mount and intensify as the film journeys to the camps at Buchenwald, Dachau, and Bergen-Belsen. The camera lingers upon naked, emaciated bodies strewn upon a barrack floor. Suddenly, one twitches, and we realize that unlike the other mounds of corpses, these people are, in fact, alive. It is a jarring moment, as what appears a ‘still’ turns into a moving image. ‘These are the survivors,’ comments the narrator laconically. The documentary concludes with the now-famous footage of British bulldozers pushing a veritable mountain of bodies into a mass grave. As the dead and dirt cascade down the deep pit, the narrator ends with the flat declaration ‘This was Bergen-Belsen.’ The horrific images render any additional verbal summary or commentary superfluous”
2.1.2. The Atomic Age
2.2. The Pastoral Intervention in the Book of Job
2.2.1. The Worldview of Job’s Interlocutors
2.2.2. Worldview and Ideology
3. Results: The Book of Job and Existential Psychotherapy
3.1. From Method to Ideology
3.2. The Failure of Ideologies
3.3. The Ineffable Encounter
3.4. From Ideologies to Transcendence
4. Conclusions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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