Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. WHAT IS ABUSE? -- 1. Self-Worth -- 1.1 Self-worth and justification -- 1.2 Resentment and self-worth -- 2. Happiness -- 2.1 The Socratic conception -- 2.2 The Maimonidean conception -- 2.3 The Wittgensteinian conception -- 3. Power -- 3.1 The intuitive paradigm -- 3.2 The moral paradigm -- 3.3 The self-restraint paradigm -- 2. DIVINE ABUSE -- 1. Job's Conception of Happiness -- 1.1 The worldly conception -- 1.2 The moral conception -- 2. Job's Conception of Self-Worth -- 2.1 Humiliation and elevation -- 2.2 Resentment and moral hatred of God -- 3. Power and Power Relations -- 3.1 Job's conception of power -- 3.2 Job's manner of exercising his power -- 3. THE WAY OUT: FROM ABUSE TO SUFFERING -- 1. Afflictions of Love and Love of Afflictions -- 1.1 Afflictions of love -- 1.2 Love of afflictions -- 2. Providence and Intervention -- 2.1 Providence as intervention -- 2.2 Maimonides -- 2.3 Simone Weil -- 3. Providence Lost -- 3.1 Afflictions of hate -- 3.2 Malevolent providence -- 3.3 From abuse to suffering -- 4. FORGIVENESS -- 1. The Victim -- 1.1 Harms, wrongs, and hostile emotions -- 1.2 Resentment and reason -- 1.3 Overcoming resentment -- 2 The Assailant -- 2.1 Telling the moral story -- 2.2 Telling the biographical story -- 2.3 Telling the same story -- 3. Forgiveness -- 3.1 Forgiveness without reconciliation -- 3.2 Reconciliation without forgiveness -- 3.3 Forgiveness and reconciliation -- 5. FORGIVING GOD -- 1. Protest -- 1.1 Roth's theodicy of protest -- 1.2 Blumenthal's 'theology of protest' -- 2. Beyond Protest -- 2.1 Protest in context -- 2.2 Beyond protest -- 3. Forgiving God -- 3.1 The logical space for forgiveness -- 3.2 Forgiving God -- 3.3 Subsisting in brokenness -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R.

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