Peter Wessel Zapffe on Job, God as cosmic cave dweller
example · Norwegian theology: Peter Wessel Zapffe ·
retold in 3 talks
Norwegian theologian Zapffe's 1930s reading of Job: when God finally appears, Job finds not a sublime intellect but a 'cosmic cave dweller, a braggart and blusterer almost agreeable in his total ignorance of spiritual culture.' The novelty is God's qualitative baseness, not his power.
As told 2
“a world ruler of grotesque primitiveness, a cosmic cave dweller, a braggart and blusterer almost agreeable in his total ignorance of spiritual culture”
“Job finds himself confronted with a world ruler of grotesque primitiveness, a comic cave dweller, a braggart and a blusterer.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
God's qualitative baseness
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divine impenetrability
×1
critique of ideology
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Its cast and sources
populated by
Lena Dunham1Tom Hanks1Olga Kurylenko1Daniel Craig1Peter Wessel Zapffe2Rey Chow1Sayyid Qutb1Hans Magnus Enzensberger1
alongside works
Every retelling 2
Norwegian theologian Zapffe's 1930s reading of Job: when God finally appears, Job finds not a sublime intellect but a 'cosmic cave dweller, a braggart and blusterer almost agreeable in his total ignorance of spiritual culture.' The novelty is God's qualitative baseness, not his power., illustrating God's qualitative baseness,dark Protestantism,renouncing divine goodness
37:58 XLII Sigmund Freud Lecture by Slavoj Žižek: Theology, Negativity, and the Death-Drive2015 · 1:49:50
Zapffe describes Job's God not as intellectually superior but as a 'grotesque primitiveness, a comic cave dweller, a braggart and a blusterer' of qualitative baseness., illustrating critique of ideology,Book of Job