The First Dissident
The Book of Job in Today's Politics
Published on 3. August 2011
304 pages
978-0-307-79986-9 (ISBN)
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One of America's foremost political columnists ties the Book of Job to the news of the day in a provacative exploration of how we can reshape politics by following Job's empowering example.
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William Safire, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, has been a newspaper reporter, a White House speechwriter, a lexicographer, an anthologist, and a bestselling novelist. In addition to his weekly column, "On Language," for The New York Times Magazine, his primary post is political columnist for The New York Times. Safire is the author of The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time: Wit and Wisdom from the Popular Language Column in the New York Times Magazine; No Uncertain Terms: More Writing from the Popular "On Language" Column in The New York Times Magazine; Take My Word For It; and many more.
Content
- 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
