Job Discourse
March 11, 2016
Outside Reading: Soren Kierkegaard/Repetition
Seeking solace in the anguished cries of Job, the young man finds that repetition alone brings about true wholeness. As Edward Mooney says, “Job is the model for repetition. His world gets restored in his yielding, and his dependence and acceptance of the wondrous beyond all choice or control.” In the place of humble yielding, the glory of creation erupts and the world is reordered. What Job discovers is a cosmos that is never fixed. In this open system of infinite potentiality, creation is a constant act all humans engage in. Autonomy gives way to interdependence and control left for trusting devotion. Through the act of giving up the world, Job receives his world anew.
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