THEO10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gustavo Gutiérrez, Anthropocentrism, Hyperbole
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The fundamental experience of the prophet is the fellowship with the divine pathos. The purpose of prophetic speech is to express god"s disappointment, will and feelings. Some typical qualities of the prophets include: hyperbole, sensitivity to evil, iconoclastic, associate of god, life of loneliness and misery. Background: ancient folk tale, wager between god and the satan is characteristic of folk tales, not a theological explanation of how god and satan interact, satan as personified evil doesn"t develop into ancient jewish theology until 500. Job is blameless and upright, a man that god has great affection for, The satan ( the adversary ) suggests that job is only faithful because of his prosperity. iii. God allows satan to bring disaster to job to give job the freedom to choose to love god. iv. Job"s children die, all of his animals and servants are either killed or raided, he gets ill, and his property is destroyed. v. vi.
