Perspectives on Job

2.0 Perspectives on Job

In the methodology preface, I spoke on "multiperspectivalism", the attempt to view a piece of literature (or life) from many different perspectives. This list of perspectives I have assembled here is by no means complete, indeed, as long as God continues to reveal Himself in the world, it can never be complete. Rather I have listed the perspectives that I found interesting and fruitful. I have even listed the "feminism" perspective, not because anyone could mistake me for a feminist, but rather to demonstrate that one need not hold/believe/defend a particular perspective in order to learn from it. Perhaps someone will oblige me and write a Marxist perspective on Job, it would be equally interesting though, as I said elsewhere, not every perspective is as equally illuminating of the text, some are more revealing of the proponent.

In addition to taking these different perspectives, I have done my best to allow one perspective to illuminate another. These inter-relationships of perspectives produce what I call "the web of meaning". Webs are not absolute truth, nor do they exist independent of people, for a a Marxist or a Materialist would certainly have a different web than mine. But webs are complex enough to be unique to individuals and convey a "personality", or a "world-view". Therefore I am not using "multiperspectivalism" to create a smoke-screen of viewpoints behind which hides a cowardly fundamentalist, rather I am encouraging you, the reader, to take your theology to a higher (meta)plane; to weave your own web; to find a web that might accomodate both religion and science, reason and experience, laws and life. This is my effort. This is theology.

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