Subtitled, Proclaiming the Incomprehensible God, Derek Thomas uses Calvin’s sermons on Job as a model for preachers today. For many of us the book of Job stands directly in the centre of one of the most complicated problems of life – the interaction between divine sovereignty and human responsibility. Its implications for a world of suffering and injustice is one that has provoked much tortuous thought for both Calvinists and Arminians. Calvin was and still is an influential theologian and these edited sermons will show how the book of Job should not be avoided. How Job deals with tremendous suffering – losing most of his earthly possessions, family and health – and how God deals with Job’s suffering, does not necessarily make a nicely packaged story. But the issues Job faced are ones that all Christians will struggle with to one degree or another.
