On Job

<p class=ql-align-justify><em>On Job: Reflections of an Accomplished Sinner on the Suffering of the Just </em>originated as chapter by chapter reflections on the Book of <em>Job</em> while the author's father was dying in a distant state. It was written and is intended to be read as an encouragement to the medieval tradition of <em>lectio divina</em>-one of the regular forms of monastic prayer-which begins with the reading of the sacred text usually aloud (the <em>lectio</em>) followed by <em>meditatio</em>-a consideration of some of the important words images and occurrences therein. Being a scholar himself Dr. Fendt turned to several of the more exacting scholars to divine more precisely how the original language was working. This led to his here recorded <em>meditatio </em>(meditation) and <em>oratio</em> (prayer) leaving it to the reader to join with his and her own <em>oratio</em> and <em>contemplatio</em> on each of the chapters of <em>Job</em>. It is offered as an invitation to a very old prayer going on under the busy-ness of the world for nearly as long as its busy-ness has been recorded.</p><p><br></p>