Hiob und seine modernen Freunde.Die Entstehung des Hiobproblems im alten Israel,sein Gebrauch und seine Problematik in der Theologie der Moderne.TEIL2
Job and his Modern Friends. The Formation of the Job Problem in Old Israel, its Usage and Questionability in Modern Theology - Part II

Summary/Abstract: Part I of this article was published in the yearbook of 2013 and dealt with the biblical and exegetical backgrounds of the Job Problem. Part II of the article now deals with three classical answers given in the theology of the 20th century: (1) The „christological answer” to the Job problem in the theology of G. Ebeling and his school, (2) its „functional attribution” in Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics, and (3) its „lasting aporia” in Friedrich Mildenberger’s „Biblical Dogmatics”. Here it is pointed out that some answers to the problem of human suffering given in 20th century theology follow closely the footsteps of Job’s friends 2500 years ago. In the end the author asks how Christian theology can deal with the problem of human suffering without repeating the mistake of a sheer theological explanation that remains outside of the suffering itself.

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