Reductionist Justice
Where Job's friends went wrong about suffering.
Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. | posted 8/22/2007 08:31AM
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Author's note: The set of eight kinds of suffering in the Old Testament we described as early as 1982 in my book A Biblical Approach to Personal Suffering Grief and Pain in the Plan of God: Christian Assurance and the Message of Lamentations
Walter Kaiser 's chapel sermons and a list of his books are available from Gordon-Conwell seminary.
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