
The First Dissident
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- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Blake's Illustrations
- Introduction: The Job of the Bible and the News of the Day
- Part I: The Book and Its Impact
- 1: The Story of Job
- 2: The Dismaying Compromise
- 3: Silencing the Rebel
- 4: Prototype of the Dissident
- Part II: The Verdicts in Job v. God
- 1: What Believers Take From Job
- 1: Don't ask God to do you a favor.
- 2: God is not a just God or an unjust God
- he is just God.
- 3: God's ways are not Man's ways.
- 4: Don't blame the victim
- suffering is no evidence of sin.
- 5: Misery has company.
- 6: Analogy of the animals: The order of nature symbolizes the moral order.
- 7: Suffering may be a blessing in disguise.
- 8: Christianity's secret weapon
- 2: The Message to Skeptics
- Photo Insert
- Part III: Bridges to Joban Politics
- 1: The Value of Joban Loyalty
- 2: Meditations by Lincoln and Job
- Part IV: What Leaders Can Learn from Job
- 1: Use it or lose it.
- 2:"Close" counts only in horseshoes and hand grenades.
- 3: Losers keepers.
- 4: Not even God can be the judge in his own case.
- 5: Be kind to the jaywalking wounded.
- 6: A little hobgoblin is the fooler of consistent minds.
- 7: Nobody but nobody is perfect.
- Photo Insert
- Part V: Pursuing the Joban Life
- 1: Maintain your Joban ways.
- 2: If access is what you need, find a go-between.
- 3: Beware consensus.
- 4: Don't let disputes with Authority grow into challenges of its legitimacy.
- 5: Persuade yourself that no need is more urgent than the need to know.
- 6: Play God for a day.
- 7: The center should not hold.
- 8: Make higher laws.
- Conclusion: The Sparks Fly Upward
- Credits
- Index of Biblical Citations
- Appendix: The Book of Job, New English Bible Translation
- About the Author
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