So what are we to make of this book of Job?

What can we make of it?

I'm going to give an argument that St. Thomas's explanation of it helps us make sense of it,

and that in fact he gives us a kind of example to follow.

Before I start, I want to give some thank yous.

First of all, of course, to Father Thomas Joseph White and Father Dominic Legg

for the invitation to come here and, of course, the Timistic Institute.

Also the invitation from Matthew Levering to write a chapter for a coming volume reading Job with St. Thomas, that basically prompted this talk.

So this is the talk on the eschatology of the commentary on Job.

Of course, the priory here for its hospitality and many brethren for countless

kindnesses. Father Brian Malady of my province for the translation that he offered of the book.

And also Father Tomash Gawushka of the Polish province who helped me with some references for this work.

So it's the aim of this paper to show that in the eschatology found in his exposito

superyob ad litreum, St. Thomas uses a particularly unified or integrated theological interpretation that is also

sound philosophically, drawing on the truth accessible through the resources of reason alone,

as well as the truth that is available through faith. And so in this way he describes the book

as an account of the provident care of the creator for humanity, even in the face of the worst apparent justices that it suffers.

Now, we will also suggest that this approach is an example for us today.

An important and even essential moment in a faithful theological approach to scripture.

But I'm not saying that contemporary exegetical methods should be somehow abandoned or avoided.

Rather, that this approach to scripture that Thomas takes, particularly one that takes the analogy of faith,

seriously ought to be seen as something that is an example for us. And so to prepare the way

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