ATC 2013 The Biblical Job: Comfort, Righteousness, Holiness

The 2013 Atlantic Theological Conference was held in Fredericton, New Brunswick. (This was the 33rd annual conference). The topic was "The Biblical Job: Comfort, Righteousness, Holiness". Speakers at the conference included Dr. Thomas Curran, Dr. Neil Robertson, Father Christopher Snook, and The Rev'd Lisa Wang. The Book of Job raises many profound theological questions, which were addressed in the papers presented at this conference. We see the rain fall on the just as well as on the unjust, and we are troubled and wonder how this can happen under God's Providence. In his Response to Father Christopher Snook's paper, The Rev'd Dr. Brian Spence examines some of the important questions raised by a close reading of the Book of Job. He writes: "How can the Book of Job assist us in speaking to our contemporaries about suffering and belief in God? How might it inspire our pastoral practice? And finally, what kind of Christian faith and practice is meant to emerge from a decidedly Christian way of reading this book, as part of the Hebrew and Christian canons of the Bible?" 145 pages