MONTREAL LAUNCH: We Find Ourselves Put to the Test

Thomas More Institute Montreal, 3405 Atwater Avenue, Montreal, QC
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Join James Crooks for the Montreal launch of his book, We Find Ourselves Put to the Test: A Reading of the Book of Job. The author will be interviewed by Rina Kampeas. The event is hosted by the Thomas More Institute Montreal.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Does the world we inhabit offer us hospitality or indifference? This question is central to the spiritual literature of all cultures. In We Find Ourselves Put to the Test James Crooks returns to the Bible's book of Job to explore the enduring relevance of that question and its philosophical dimensions. Beginning with the puzzle of Job's famous stoicism and nihilism in the face of loss, Crooks explores the contradictions of suffering as dramatized in the dialogue between Job and his friends. How is it that the friends' attempt to comfort Job with a rational explanation of his misfortune devolves seamlessly into victim blaming? How is it that Job's own renunciation of life at the nadir of his pain converts into an intellectual patience that outlasts the advocates of rational explanation? We Find Ourselves Put to the Test gives a portrait of the suffering protagonist looking into the heart of a creation that is, by necessity, both indifferent and hospitable.

James Crooks teaches philosophy, liberal arts, music, and musical theatre at Bishop's University.